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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: 1) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @02:19PM
It's not a victim card, it's a reality card. Are you seriously saying they should be racing towards a worse life rather than attempting to avoid it? Is Republican thinking something like a weird black hole where if you dive head first into poverty you somehow magically fall through poverty and come out in a land of milk an honey?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:29PM
I'm with Admiral Ackbar on this one.
I'm not a republican. An individual forced to go out and hustle a legal wage for themselves will easily be able to afford milk and honey, should that be what they desire.
(Score: 1) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @03:36PM
>> An individual forced to go out and hustle a legal wage for themselves will easily be able to afford milk and honey
That's the entire point. There are no jobs for most of these people. They can't hustle what there is none of. Do you really think people would choose to, for example, rob a store, rather than work a normal job? Do you really believe there are entire cities of people who choose to do nothing rather than work? Taking away the safety net will not magically "force" them to get jobs. It will just make their situation worse. Look back at history before welfare and see how many people were unemployed and the horrible conditions (much worse than today) in which the unemployed were living.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:24PM
This defeatist attitude is the problem. Are you seriously saying people have devolved to some primitive level that precludes the use of hand tools? Are they so ill served by the education system that they are unable to read and write? Do they not have access to a public library?
There are no jobs or wealth creation possibilities for anyone other than the opportunities they create for themselves.