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A video from a US fashion retailer has created controversy.
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Social media is alight with claims the video is racist.
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She tells the camera that genes are passed down from parents to offspring.
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Determining traits like hair colour personality and even eye colour.
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The play on words was part of its ad campaign's provocative language.
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Many people have criticized the wordplay for having eugenic undertones.
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Encouraging people with certain genes to reproduce to increase the occurrence.
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Critics of the ad highlight the fact that she is white blue-eyed and blonde.
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A former Fox News host called the criticism a leftist meltdown.
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The communications director said attacking the ad was cancel culture run amok.
See the jeans and genes wordplay lesson for the whole text.
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