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posted by on Friday December 30 2016, @09:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-provide-tattoos-for-right-applicant dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @01:43PM

    by Bethany.Saint (5900) on Friday December 30 2016, @01:43PM (#447404)

    >>Blacks are unable to control their violence.

    Is this genetics ... built into the chromosomes? Could be fix blacks by modifying their genetics? Using new CRISPR techniques could we take some of the calming white bits and target the bad violent black genomes?

    Maybe we can target the "money" genes in the Jews too? Or maybe we extract the Jews money genetics and put them in Whites? That way we can fix the white poverty problems too? (Did I go too far with this one?)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @01:58PM (#447413)

    Easy with the absurdity, you will be labelled "racist" by those who are genuinely absurd.

    Is this genetics ... built into the chromosomes?

    Testosterone.

    Maybe we can target the "money" genes in the Jews too?

    It's not a "money" gene. [haaretz.com]

    Problem behaviours need discussing if they are to be addressed. Easier for some to stick their fingers in their ears or drown out the discussion by crying "racist".

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @05:57PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 30 2016, @05:57PM (#447513) Journal

      Leeeeet me guess, testosterone is inversely proportional to intelligence? You also think penis size is inversely correlated with IQ, riiiiiight?

      I love this. By this logic East Asians should be worshiped, as they tend to have a higher IQ than every single ethnic group on the planet except--you're gonna love this one!-ASHKENAZI JEWS! I'll wait here behind this handy-dandy blast shield while you process that one, prepared for the inevitable brain explosion :D

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:35AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:35AM (#447728)

        Leeeeet me guess, testosterone is inversely proportional to intelligence? You also think penis size is inversely correlated with IQ, riiiiiight?

        Errr... No! FWIW I have both a big dick and a high IQ. Bite me!

        I love this. By this logic East Asians should be worshiped, as they tend to have a higher IQ than every single ethnic group on the planet except--you're gonna love this one!-ASHKENAZI JEWS! I'll wait here behind this handy-dandy blast shield while you process that one, prepared for the inevitable brain explosion :D

        Ohh, you got me!!! Except for that fact that genetic predisposition towards mental illness has nothing to do with penis size or religion. I'd suggest you stay behind the blast shield and prepare for the truth hitting you like the stale fart it is. Anybody with a basic education knew the truth long ago,

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:56AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:56AM (#447769) Journal

          Well, my "dick" is blue and lives in the sock drawer and may or may not eat dust bunnies, for what that's worth =P Sure as hell chews through batteries though. And my IQ's about 145 if that chart correlating SAT/ACT/GRE scores to IQ means anything.

          But what's your point? Where does "mental illness" enter a discussion of which ethnicities typically test high for IQ, which is the point under discussion here. You went completely off the rails here. And hey, as people constantly remind me, "Jew" is as much an ethnicity as a religion, riiiiii~ght? Oh, excuse me, i forgot your kind use the term "Khazar" for the Ashkenazim (as opposed to the Sephardim, who would probably make you shit your size 3XL adult diaper if one of them sat next to you on a plane).

          You are a special kind of stupid.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday December 30 2016, @08:48PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday December 30 2016, @08:48PM (#447593) Homepage Journal

    Please don't feed the trolls! It only makes them worse.

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