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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 Thexalon on Friday December 30 2016, @07:46PM
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?
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
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.