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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, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:00PM
I know it's in the playbook to change the subject then act like it always was the new subject but we expect better than that around here. If you'd care to weigh in on what is actually being discussed here or start a separate thread for your new complaint, I'm game. Otherwise you're Offtopic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:14AM
That is precisely what was being discussed here, you pusillanimous piece of shit. It only takes a few neo-nazis (no, I will not call you festering bowel polyps "alt-right") in the wrong place to undo decades of civil rights legislation. Fuck your attempted censorship, and may you fry in hell for the part you had in bringing this about, then get reincarnated poor, black, and female in what remains of Atlanta.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:08AM
It wasn't and you're wrong on every single assumption above. Your kind are rapidly ceasing to matter though, so I'll be magnanimous and go ahead let you have the last word in your inevitable venom-filled reply.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 02 2017, @02:52AM
Yuk it up while you can, dipshit...you and your buddies have just voted for the end of the US as a nation. If you're getting venom, it's because you deserve it, and being angry doesn't make someone wrong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...