Dr. Phil Blisters ‘The Woke Left’ Over Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad

Dr. Phil McGraw laid into the American political Left over an American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, trashing them for comparing the ad campaign to the eugenics-based goals of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

The popular television host and author shared a few of the more unhinged reactions from the Left — namely that by featuring an attractive white girl and stating that she “has good jeans” (read: “good genes”) obviously implies that white people are genetically superior — and argued that they were taking their attempts to cancel everything a little bit too far.

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🚨NEW: Dr. Phil *UNLOADS* on “woke left” for likening Sydney Sweeney ad to Nazism🚨

“How dare you trivialize mass m*rder and Hitler’s Final Solution to a blue jean commercial?”

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McGraw began by noting that if there was a legitimate issue with the ads — which many pointed out would have been indistinguishable from the mainstream just two decades earlier — there was certainly room to have a conversation about that. Still, the Left appeared to prefer simply jumping straight to cancellation.

“The woke Left is again jumping at the opportunity to shame and cancel everyone and everything that rubs them the wrong way. Don’t miss a chance,” he explained. “Instead of having a cancel culture, a civilized conversation, they’re screaming at their social media feeds, comparing the ad to Nazi Germany.”

He went on to say that he found the comparisons to the Holocaust particularly “insulting,” mainly because instead of the desired effect — to make people think that Sweeney’s ad was actually as bad as Nazi propaganda — the comments from the Left did the opposite, minimizing the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime.

“I have to say these Holocaust analogies are insulting. They’re insulting. The Holocaust was one of the greatest travesties in human history,” he added. “How dare you trivialize mass murder and Hitler’s Final Solution to a blue jean commercial? What the hell are you thinking? I get it. You don’t like the play on words. Words can be dangerous, but not as dangerous as being ignorant. Not as dangerous as being overreactive. The hell are you thinking?”