The clash between Sydney Sweeney and writer Doreen St. Felix has taken a dramatic turn. Most recently, the journalist deleted her social media accounts after old posts resurfaced containing racial and antisemitic remarks.
Sydney Sweeney-hating writer deletes social media
Doreen St. Felix, a journalist for The New Yorker, has deleted her social media accounts after facing criticism for a series of racial posts.
The controversy started following her August 2 article criticizing Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle campaign. In it, she argued that the ad celebrated the actress’s “famously large breasts, genes, and whiteness” as aspirational qualities. Calling Sweeney “Aryan princess,” the journalist added, “Interestingly, breasts, and the desire for them, are stereotyped as objects of white desire, as opposed to, say, the black man’s hunger for a–.”
After the piece was published, social media users such as Christopher Rufo discovered a number of St. Felix’s older posts dating back to 2014. These tweets contained overtly racial and antisemitic remarks, including “whiteness fills me with a lot of hate” and “the holocaust is the worst thing to happen to black people.”
Other posts targeted white men specifically, stating “You all are the worst. Go nurse your f—— Oedipal complexes and leave the earth to the browns and the women,” and plainly, “I hate white men.” Several tweets reflected her personal views, with St. Felix admitting she “writes like no white is watching” and claiming she “would be heartbroken if I had kids with a white guy.”
St. Felix made several references to the Holocaust, describing what she called “the holocaust gesture,” writing that it “allows them [white people] to step out of their whiteness and slip on fake oppression.”
The resurfacing of these tweets drew public backlash. In response, St. Felix deleted multiple social media accounts over the weekend.
Originally reported by Disheeta Maheshwari on Mandatory.
