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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, Insightful) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @12:55PM
>> The metropolitan areas with the highest percentage black community and highest crime rates have something else in common don't they?
Not sure what you're trying to say here? Is that that we've trapped the black community in a cycle of poverty and despair in increasingly dense areas leaving violence as a means of gangs trying to exert some control over their lives as they enter adulthood. Or are you saying blacks are inherently violent because {something}?
Couldn't be the conditions cause the violence and not the other way around, could it?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @01:12PM
Blacks are unable to control their violence. Just like jews cannot control destroying the world and murdering its people/animals/plants.
Blacks are certainly better than jews. Blacks were hurt quite bad by the slave trade run by jews. They should get their revenge. A while ago, israel got angry at BLM when they compared their suffering to those of Palestinians.
Conditions don't last forever. People get chances to fix themselves and their communities. When a community refuses to do that (over centuries), it tells you something.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @01:43PM
>>Blacks are unable to control their violence.
Is this genetics ... built into the chromosomes? Could be fix blacks by modifying their genetics? Using new CRISPR techniques could we take some of the calming white bits and target the bad violent black genomes?
Maybe we can target the "money" genes in the Jews too? Or maybe we extract the Jews money genetics and put them in Whites? That way we can fix the white poverty problems too? (Did I go too far with this one?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @01:58PM
Easy with the absurdity, you will be labelled "racist" by those who are genuinely absurd.
Testosterone.
It's not a "money" gene. [haaretz.com]
Problem behaviours need discussing if they are to be addressed. Easier for some to stick their fingers in their ears or drown out the discussion by crying "racist".
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @05:57PM
Leeeeet me guess, testosterone is inversely proportional to intelligence? You also think penis size is inversely correlated with IQ, riiiiiight?
I love this. By this logic East Asians should be worshiped, as they tend to have a higher IQ than every single ethnic group on the planet except--you're gonna love this one!-ASHKENAZI JEWS! I'll wait here behind this handy-dandy blast shield while you process that one, prepared for the inevitable brain explosion :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:35AM
Errr... No! FWIW I have both a big dick and a high IQ. Bite me!
Ohh, you got me!!! Except for that fact that genetic predisposition towards mental illness has nothing to do with penis size or religion. I'd suggest you stay behind the blast shield and prepare for the truth hitting you like the stale fart it is. Anybody with a basic education knew the truth long ago,
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:56AM
Well, my "dick" is blue and lives in the sock drawer and may or may not eat dust bunnies, for what that's worth =P Sure as hell chews through batteries though. And my IQ's about 145 if that chart correlating SAT/ACT/GRE scores to IQ means anything.
But what's your point? Where does "mental illness" enter a discussion of which ethnicities typically test high for IQ, which is the point under discussion here. You went completely off the rails here. And hey, as people constantly remind me, "Jew" is as much an ethnicity as a religion, riiiiii~ght? Oh, excuse me, i forgot your kind use the term "Khazar" for the Ashkenazim (as opposed to the Sephardim, who would probably make you shit your size 3XL adult diaper if one of them sat next to you on a plane).
You are a special kind of stupid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday December 30 2016, @08:48PM
Please don't feed the trolls! It only makes them worse.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @01:23PM
The something else they have in common is that they vote democrat. Do note how much it has done for them since this trend started. Life in blue cities has become nothing but poorer and more violent. Not one is better to be poor or black in than it was 50 years ago.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @01:51PM
They vote democrat because it offers the best hope for their future. Even if that future doesn't materialize. They know that the Republican solution is to take away benefits and by force of extreme poverty they somehow magically get off their lazy but violent butts and make something of themselves. When has making poor people even poorer ever worked to make them richer?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:10PM
We have a winner! Victim cards are not accepted as currency anywhere except in leftist politics and the only reward for voting democrat is issuance of yet more victim cards. Thus, the cycle of poverty is enshrined.
(Score: 1) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @02:19PM
It's not a victim card, it's a reality card. Are you seriously saying they should be racing towards a worse life rather than attempting to avoid it? Is Republican thinking something like a weird black hole where if you dive head first into poverty you somehow magically fall through poverty and come out in a land of milk an honey?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:29PM
I'm with Admiral Ackbar on this one.
I'm not a republican. An individual forced to go out and hustle a legal wage for themselves will easily be able to afford milk and honey, should that be what they desire.
(Score: 1) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @03:36PM
>> An individual forced to go out and hustle a legal wage for themselves will easily be able to afford milk and honey
That's the entire point. There are no jobs for most of these people. They can't hustle what there is none of. Do you really think people would choose to, for example, rob a store, rather than work a normal job? Do you really believe there are entire cities of people who choose to do nothing rather than work? Taking away the safety net will not magically "force" them to get jobs. It will just make their situation worse. Look back at history before welfare and see how many people were unemployed and the horrible conditions (much worse than today) in which the unemployed were living.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:24PM
This defeatist attitude is the problem. Are you seriously saying people have devolved to some primitive level that precludes the use of hand tools? Are they so ill served by the education system that they are unable to read and write? Do they not have access to a public library?
There are no jobs or wealth creation possibilities for anyone other than the opportunities they create for themselves.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @02:15PM
That's what they're told, yes. That's not, however, what republicans want. If you want the middle class to come back, you help out SMB creation and growth. Race is really immaterial if you create conditions that ease the path out of poverty instead of subsidizing it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday December 30 2016, @04:10PM
That's a nice illustration of why people vote Republican. Their personal beliefs simply don't agree with what actual Republican politicians will implement and they are in denial about this.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:30AM
No denial happening, simply the electorate with no better choice. Works the same with democrats too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:11PM
And flyover country states vote republican even though the party acts against their best interests. One big difference is that the senators in those blue states support government social programs and subsidies at least call them that. In the red states they have to use code words for subsidies and handouts so that they can pretend they are really some sort of magical small government incentive program or something. The populace states, particularly the coastal states, have subsidized and propped up the "breadbasket" for ever. If the democrats really wanted to turn those states blue, they'd give them exactly what they say they want and stop sending them more money then they send to Washington.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @02:27PM
You created the money transfer conditions, you don't get to bitch about them as well. Give us red states a chance to get out of poverty and we'll take it; destroy all paths to wealth and subsidize poverty and it'll only get worse.
What you fundamentally do not get is when you throw money at something, you get more of it. This is the reason for basically every problem this nation has. Put money where you want something to be, not where it is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday December 30 2016, @04:12PM
Wow, how about you take some responsibility for your own actions?
So your argument is that Red States are poor because "Democrats"? Did it ever occur to you that the Red States are poor because of the policies implemented by the politicians you voted for?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:53PM
Did it ever occur to you that the Red States are poor because of the policies implemented by the politicians you voted for?
"Kansas uber alles!!" All hail Brownback!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:41AM
I think you need to reread. Kansas is poor because Kansas has no industry to speak of. You, however, are the ones who decided to subsidize their poverty. Stop bitching.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:04PM
"Stop bitching"? You are the one bitching about how somehow the politicians that you elected are not responsible for the poor economy in your state.
GROW UP! Take some responsibility for your actions.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:19PM
Was I? I'm pretty sure I wasn't. There's no sense in complaining that water is wet or that politicians are full of shit. Perhaps you should go back and have another read.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:36PM
I did go back and re-read and, yes, you are trying to place blame on politicians other than the ones you put into power. As, I said, grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your own voting record.
Quite simply, the reason Red States tend to be poor is the policies enacted by their own leaders. Policies that keep people uneducated and poor, while a few people become very rich.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:46AM
Right, so if I already said just what you said, I'm bitching but you're being informative? SMFH
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @01:36PM
The former.
We already know the answer to this. Anti-social behaviour develops as a character trait. In it's most popular and somewhat crass form; "you can take the person out of the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of the person". We don't need to rehash what has already been said hundreds of times. [soapboxie.com]
The biggest start you can give your children in life is self-esteem. You do this by supporting them financially, emotionally and psychologically. Generations trapped in a cycle of state dependence has denied some even the most basic level of human dignity. Gangs are tribes; the aspiration and behaviour prevalent within democrat voting, poorer inner city communities is an exact match for the 3rd world.