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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 fritsd on Friday December 30 2016, @04:37PM
Honestly, I haven't yet formed a fixed picture in my mind of what "alt-right" encompasses. I only know the following:
- Steve Bannon from Breitbart, who is going to be in Trump's government, apparently said something like "Breitbart is a platform for the alt-right", so that may become a nucleus for all molecules of "alt-right" to coagulate around, and shape the definition.
- I once visited Breitbart website for fun (!???! wrong decision) and got actual stomach pain from reading the comments on just one story.
- I once read an article somewhere about a cartoon frog Pepe who was co-opted for cartoons of grinning Nazis, which made the original author of said frog sad.
Um, that's about it. The concept is still nebulous :-) I am (morbidly) curious, but I have to watch out what I surf to, otherwise my depression gets worse.
So far, if you say that "alt-right" and neo-nazism don't overlap to a great degree, I'll take your word for it.
Would you say "alt-right" is "fascist", though? That's a much broader term.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:15PM
Seemingly any opposition to the gutting of nation states by oligarchs under the banner of "globalism" is enough for an individual to be labelled "alt-right" and by extension "a nazi". It doesn't matter if you are a traditional conservative, libertarian or even a left-leaning classical liberal.
How amusing that governments arming Saudi Arabia (see: The Yemen), supplying arms to terrorists in Syria, importing that terrorism into their own countries via migration and then trying to step-up security to deal with the problem they created are associating their opponents with authoritarians. Good thing those same governments didn't support an actual neo-nazi coup in the Ukraine... Oh no, it's the Russians wot done it all... must be true because (former Nazi collaborator) George Soros says so.
If you really want to read up on the bogeyman:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:19PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:41AM
George Soros once posed as a gentile in order to confiscate wealth from the Jews in the same way he now poses as a liberal in order to confiscate wealth from entire nations. FFS indeed! [rt.com]
Soros is on record as saying the time he spent with the Nazis was the best time of his life. He supports BLM in order to create racial division that he can profit from. He supports Neo-Nazis in the Ukraine in order to float his stakes in Ukrainian energy companies on the open market. He supports open borders whilst living behind the tallest wall in Bedford NY. Why in the fuck do you people keep defending this indefensible twat?