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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: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday December 30 2016, @06:47PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday December 30 2016, @06:47PM (#447544) Homepage Journal

    Individualism. And that rights of individual have been fought by too much blood to shed it at the alter of better things.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:45PM (#447576)

    > Individualism.

    Gee, that's not what they've got to say for themselves. In fact, that's pretty much the exact opposite of how they define themselves because, as the mighty buttload is fond of telling everyone, racism is the opposite of individualism.

    If you only know of the alt right from The_Donald, then do not know what the alt right is. You probably think it means something along the lines of cultural libertarianism or just being "more conservative". It doesn't. It doesn't mean anti-establishment right leaning politics either. We do not agree with Conservatives ideologically and we are not people who are just trying to do conservativism "better".

    The Alt Right is a racial movement and has always been a racial movement. Race is at the very core of the alt right and there is absolutely no way to be alt right without discussing racial realism, especially from a white perspective. The mainstream media was not lying to you when they said we are full of white nationalists, racial realists, and fascists. That is what we are and we really do not give a shit about tax cuts or other policy issues.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4zr372/to_the_new_subscribers_coming_from_rthe_donald/ [reddit.com]

  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday December 30 2016, @07:46PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday December 30 2016, @07:46PM (#447577)

    Assuming you consider yourself a member of the "alt-right", that can't be correct: You've announced that definition using the collectivist computer network, powered by the collectivist electrical power grid, and some sort of computing device probably produced by some kind of collective effort like a major corporation and their suppliers, that you almost definitely got by trading some kind of socially-defined currency for, probably using a connection you also traded some kind of socially-defined currency for. You probably also acquired that socially-defined currency by working at some kind of job for a collective organization. So, as I see it, you have indeed decided to make all kinds of sacrifices to individual liberty at the altar of better things.

    So, since your own behavior established that that wasn't what "alt-right" really means, what does "alt-right" really mean?

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:54PM (#447580)

      For people like cubancigar, "individualism" in practice is really just a synonym for "my tribal identity" - much like Henry Ford's old slogan that you can have your car painted in any color you want as long as its black.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:33PM (#447631)

    rights of individual have been fought by too much blood to shed it at the alter of better things.

    These are not the fascists you are looking for! Alt-right is not individualist, it is right communitarian. It wants to use the power of the state to control those it deems (((cubancigars)))!! So you should be afraid, very afraid.

    So, alt-right grammar says that rights have not been fought by blood, unless you are saying "Blut und Ehre", and that blood trumps (heh) individual rights, equality, and the rule of law. And, "alter" means change, to change to better things is progressivism. You meant "altar"? You went to college, eh? And totally avoided learning how to spell? Nazi.