Conservative commentators escalated criticism of New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Félix after past social-media posts surfaced in which she wrote, among other things, “Whiteness must be abolished” and “whiteness fills me with a lot of hate.” The comments re-circulated on 14 August, roughly two weeks after St. Félix published “The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans,” an essay that described the actress’s American Eagle denim campaign as playing into an “Aryan princess” archetype. Figures including activist Christopher Rufo accused the writer and the magazine of promoting anti-white rhetoric and likened St. Félix’s language to racial extremism. The New Yorker has not publicly responded, and there is no indication that editorial action has been taken. Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle also have not commented. The controversy adds to a growing pattern of politically charged backlash aimed at cultural criticism in legacy publications, underscoring heightened sensitivities around race and representation in U.S. media coverage.
“Whiteness” appears over 50 times in her Twitter history. She is obsessed with race, and hates white people. She says so herself. See the tweet below. The @NewYorker has the black female equivalent of a KKK Grand Wizard as a staff writer. https://t.co/TDuVNJRPtx https://t.co/pbDneuHE0h
Reading a shrill black feminist graduate of Brown taking to the pages of the New Yorker to talk about the racialist "terrorism" of Sydney Sweeney's gorgeousness is the most fun I've had all day. More, please! https://t.co/4HiLm3ukRz
“Whiteness must be abolished” https://t.co/Pff9ikxc2o