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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:02PM (#447414)

    Experiment: What will happen if you tie a jew behind a Cadillac and tow him for half an hour?

    The rest of society will put you in prison, you vile creature!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:44PM (#447436)

    No, stupid - the rest of society will praise me, and beg for tolerance and understanding, because I am Muslim.

                                                - achmed

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:56PM (#447443)

      No, stupid - the rest of society will praise me, and beg for tolerance and understanding, because I am Muslim.
       
                                                  - achmed

      Ha - well played.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @05:49PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 30 2016, @05:49PM (#447509) Journal

      Pssh, you've got that idiot Dunham's hand up your boney ass the whole time. You're not going anywhere, Mr. Dead Terrorist.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @06:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @06:22PM (#447530)

        I see your biggest fear is terrorists.

        When your time comes, you will face terrorists in Room 101.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @06:31PM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 30 2016, @06:31PM (#447538) Journal

          Are they going to be...terrifying...terrorists? And will they be all boney and googly-eyed? And have a gay son?

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:59PM (#447597)

      Mohammed: Did you see Mohammed at the meeting today?
      Mohammed: No, but his brother Mohammed showed up.
      Mohammed: What did Mohammed talk about?
      Mohammed: Mohammed introduced us to Mohammed who is also a mason!
      Mohammed: A mason? No shit? How long has he been one?
      Mohammed: About five years. He was referred to the local lodge by Mohammed.
      Mohammed: Ah, yes, Mohammed. He has a shit ton of connections around town!
      Mohammed: Yes, and our brothers, police be upon them, Mohammed and Mohammed from Egypt came, too.
      Mohammed: I've been thinking of becoming a clown.
      Mohammed: A clown, Mohammed, why?
      Mohammed: So I can film myself being gay.
      Mohammed: Oh, you.
      Mohammed: So anyway, is Mohammed, Mohammed, and Mohammed coming to the next party?
      Mohammed: Indeed. Mohammed was so funny last time.
      Mohammed: Well it wouldn't be a party without Mohammed.
      Mohammed: Yes, my friend. POLICE BE UPON THEM!