Backlash Against New Yorker Writer Following Controversial Remarks about Sidney Sweeney

A staff writer for The New Yorker has been scrambling to delete her social media accounts after old tweets resurfaced amidst a heated discussion regarding actress Sidney Sweeney, who was described as an “Aryan Princess” in a recent critique.

Doreen St. Félix, the writer in question, reportedly shut down her X account following the emergence of these past posts, as highlighted by the New York Post. Some of her older statements, dating back more than ten years, included remarks such as “I hate white men” and critiques of “white capitalism” in relation to environmental issues.

American Eagle Responds to Controversy Sparked by Sydney Sweeney Campaign

The re-examination of St. Félix’s tweets was prompted by an article published on August 2nd in The New Yorker, where she condemned Sweeney’s advertisements for American Eagle Jeans, criticizing them in a rather scathing way.

St. Félix claimed that the implications were “inconsistent,” alluding to Sweeney’s physical appearance, specifically her “very big breasts” and her racial identity. She further described the American Eagle campaign as a commercialized representation that appealed to the lowest common denominator, suggesting Sweeney was teetering on the edge of fame while being co-opted by extreme ideologies that view her as an “Aryan princess.”

Backlash Against Sweeney’s American Eagle Ads

Since the advertising campaign launched, Sweeney faced significant backlash. Critics from both progressive and mainstream spaces accused the ads of endorsing a narrative of “whiteness” and even connected the campaign to the broader “Eugenics Movement.”

After discovering St. Félix’s comments, Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, took to social media to highlight an old tweet from St. Félix, suggesting her views bore a racist undertone. He asserted that the author of a seemingly absurd piece targeting Sweeney was expressing blatant anti-white sentiments.

In a particularly pointed tweet from 2014, St. Félix had expressed her disdain, stating, “I hate white men. You’re all the worst. I’ll nurse your Oedipal complex and leave the Earth to the Browns and women.”

As Rufo’s posts spread, amassing a following of over 800,000, the backlash intensified. St. Félix ultimately deleted her account, responding to the storm of criticism.

Amidst the chaos, Rufo remarked that St. Félix’s comments reflect a kind of animosity, indicating that there’s an underlying belief of genetic predisposition among white people to cause societal woes. The New Yorker and St. Félix have yet to provide a statement regarding the situation.