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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @02:15PM
That's what they're told, yes. That's not, however, what republicans want. If you want the middle class to come back, you help out SMB creation and growth. Race is really immaterial if you create conditions that ease the path out of poverty instead of subsidizing it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday December 30 2016, @04:10PM
That's a nice illustration of why people vote Republican. Their personal beliefs simply don't agree with what actual Republican politicians will implement and they are in denial about this.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:30AM
No denial happening, simply the electorate with no better choice. Works the same with democrats too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.