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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: 4, Informative) by fritsd on Friday December 30 2016, @04:12PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Friday December 30 2016, @04:12PM (#447470) Journal

    You wrote:

    Traits of liberals:
    Demand of censorship? Check.
    Government enforced discrimination? Check.
    Government overruling individual rights? Check.
    Getting in cahoots with industry to further political agenda? Check.

    That's not correct I think. Liberals, in the spirit of Thorbecke [wikipedia.org] (sorry, I don't know his contemporaries and like-minded politicians in 19th century USA),
    are for equal rights (even for women in the 20th century) and freedom of speech and religion, so your traits 1 2 and 3 don't apply.

    Trait 4 in cahoots with industry is correct I think for the right-wing liberals (economic right, social liberal) such as the VVD in the Nethelands, but less so for the left-wing liberals (economic centre-left, social liberal) such as D'66 in the Netherlands (both represented in ALDE [wikipedia.org] at european level so it's mixed up).

    Now if you compare those 4 traits with the famous Umberto Eco shopping list from 1995 [google.com], I think they clearly correspond with his numbers

    censorship: 4, 14
    discrimination: 5, 12
    overruling rights: 13, 7, 10
    industry: couldn't really find in Eco's essay

    (I gave the Google search link to the Ur-Fascism essay, because I couldn't use the primary source, NY review of books. I've got the essay on my computer so I must have one year downloaded it from somewhere :-) )

    You could claim: "the people calling themselves "liberals" in the USA, are not, they're actually kind of fascists", but please don't re-define a word for a 150 year old political movement just because after that Procrustes treatment, it fits your agenda. It confuses.

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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:15PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:15PM (#447900) Homepage Journal

    Sorry for replying late. I may be wrong in my choice of words. Please forgive me. The liberalism you quote is what I actually call the snatching of victory for individual rights from the oppressive system humanity created to keep those damn carnivorous animals, insects, diseases and other natural forces at bay, so it could procreate in a safe environment. But you have to look at current political climate and the things that get done in the name of liberalism.