New Yorker Writer Deletes Social Media After Anti-White Posts Resurface

Doreen St. Félix, a New Yorker staff writer, faced backlash after publishing an article criticizing Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad campaign, describing Sweeney as an "Aryan princess" and linking the ad to glorifying whiteness and certain physical traits. Following the article, social media users, including Christopher Rufo, uncovered St. Félix's old tweets containing explicitly anti-white and antisemitic remarks, such as "I hate white men" and Holocaust-related comments. In response to the controversy, St. Félix deleted multiple social media accounts. The revelations sparked a wider debate on journalistic hypocrisy, with Rufo offering a financial incentive for New Yorker staff to publicly denounce the magazine's alleged culture of racism. The American Eagle ad itself received mixed reactions, but most Americans did not see it as promoting Nazism, and some commentators dismissed the controversy as an overblown online reaction. Neither St. Félix nor The New Yorker issued a public comment on the matter.