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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: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @06:11PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 30 2016, @06:11PM (#447523) Journal

    Explain to us what "racial purity" means. Please. With as much science as you can muster. I've got a bag of popcorn the size of the Ritz and by Cthulhu it looks like I'm gonna need it all.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:01PM (#447552)

    If jews tell you (ask you nicely through many persuasion techniques) to do something, you can bet it has GOT to be bad for you.

    They divide and conquer. A pure race is hard to fool. A pure race has many super-powers of the mind (no kidding here) and that is a great advantage. But you wouldn't know that if you are mixed.

    Race mixing is genocide. Those who are not faithful to their race are traitors.

    Ex French president jew Nicolas Sarkozy wants racial inter-breeding by law: French Ex-President Sarkozy again tells French to mix races. [whitegenocideproject.com]

    Mixed people have no identity. They may look like people, eat, drink like people but are not. They are hollow beings who do not have life energy. Easy to conquer.