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Seems someone got the whole thing seriously wrong, but evidently there was a casting call for actors for a Cadillac commercial that was looking for "alt-right" or "neo-nazi" types.
Cadillac caused a stir this week when a casting service put out a request on behalf of the American luxury brand looking to fill the role of an "alt-right (neo-Nazi)" in a new commercial. Cadillac denied it had ever authorized the notice and condemned it, while the casting company took responsibility, saying that it had been issued by mistake. Regardless of who did what, the idea had to have been hatched somewhere and by someone, which reveals something far more troubling than a mere streak of poor taste and even poorer judgement in corporate America: the marketability and mainstreaming of an alt-right population, or those "identified variously with anti-globalist and anti-immigrant stances, cartoon frogs, white nationalists, pick-up artists, anti-Semites, and a rising tide of right-wing populism," as Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel wrote in a profile of Paul Gottfried, the alt-right's "godfather."
Hmm, maybe now that the "alt-right" has become just another marketing demographic, we do not have to worry about them taking over the country? I mean, who buys Cadillacs as a status symbol anymore? Not like they are your father's Oldsmobile. Except that, really, it was your father's Olds. So that brand no longer exists. Are we at the point where we can say, "Brietbart: it's not your grandpa's fascism!"? Except, really, maybe it is?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @01:13PM
Seriously? You know there are so few actual racists in the nation that K3 membership is under 25K nationwide, right?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 30 2016, @01:38PM
I agree that the Establishment Media is in a pickle and trying very hard to smear the forces it lost the election to. They've lost their credibility, erased any reputation they had left, and know they're not going to get it back any time soon, so they're taking the only route open to them and trying to drive the general esteem for everyone else even lower. Of course it will backfire, because the harder they try, the worse they look.
That said, white supremacists were not the bulk of Trump's support, but they were in the mix. Let's not pretend they weren't. The ones who are unabashedly white supremacists, who wear their membership in the Klan or the Nazi party proudly, do number as few as you claim. But the people who share their views and only shy away from wearing the label openly form a larger group. To assert that both sets are not racists is incorrect.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @01:52PM
The thing is, they simply do not exist in significant numbers, so who cares what they think or support?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @06:28PM
Because it only takes a few in the wrong places, and you know very well this is the case. Stop being disingenuous. I wouldn't give a fuck what Steve Bannon believed *if he weren't in a position of power.*
I don't know what's more insulting: that you think we won't pick up on this kind of evasive, self-serving bullshit, or that you don't seem to care.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:00PM
I know it's in the playbook to change the subject then act like it always was the new subject but we expect better than that around here. If you'd care to weigh in on what is actually being discussed here or start a separate thread for your new complaint, I'm game. Otherwise you're Offtopic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:14AM
That is precisely what was being discussed here, you pusillanimous piece of shit. It only takes a few neo-nazis (no, I will not call you festering bowel polyps "alt-right") in the wrong place to undo decades of civil rights legislation. Fuck your attempted censorship, and may you fry in hell for the part you had in bringing this about, then get reincarnated poor, black, and female in what remains of Atlanta.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:08AM
It wasn't and you're wrong on every single assumption above. Your kind are rapidly ceasing to matter though, so I'll be magnanimous and go ahead let you have the last word in your inevitable venom-filled reply.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 02 2017, @02:52AM
Yuk it up while you can, dipshit...you and your buddies have just voted for the end of the US as a nation. If you're getting venom, it's because you deserve it, and being angry doesn't make someone wrong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by BK on Friday December 30 2016, @03:14PM
That said, racists of all stripes do/did not make up the bulk of the support for either major candidate, but they were in the mix. For both. If we are going to tar candidates (or their 'parties' with the worst traits of their most despicable supporters, let's at least pretend to be fair and honest about it.
...but you HAVE heard of me.