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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 30 2016, @10:33PM
I'm going to post high-up because lazy. And others have held down the trolling portion of the discussion pretty damn good. But speaking of generalities, the summary implies that Cadillac is an obsolete brand associated with grannies.
A word search for "Cadillac" revealed nothing outside of the summary, it's not in any comments, so I'll make one. The Cadillac brand is not only associated with stodgy White grandparents, but also younger niggers with too much unearned money on their hands. It's why the Cadillac Escalade is the SUV of choice for the up-and-coming nigger after being cut his first check from Levy Goldstein's rap record label or from the NBA during their rookie season.
But there is another demographic to which Cadillac is trying to pander now -- the young professional Catholic. This is why the Cadillacs in all recent ads are colored black, and fairly recently in Wired magazine I saw an ad which additionally featured four faces -- all implied Catholics as there were no female or tranny faces. The four faces were two respectable White men, one token Black man, and a token nu-male with an obnoxious haircut and thick-rimmed glasses; but all clean-shaven and stoic with no real facial expression in the true Catholic fashion. It's hard to decide if Catholics prefer driving shiny black limos-without-the-limo-part or hearses-without-the-hearse-part.