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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: 3, Informative) by Bethany.Saint on Friday December 30 2016, @01:26PM
Good points. Some spot on. So I'll only respond to a few.
>>Today, people are encouraged to retain their original culture.
This is true. Taken to extreme, I see this a being a problem as well. I support efforts to "melt" immigrants. I believe many in the middle left do too.
>>Second, many whites in the US seem to feel that they are disadvantaged in a country where they are the nominal majority.
They do, but they are not disadvantaged because of advances by minorities. This narrative of minorities has been a mainstay of Republicans for years now. Unfortunately it's become ingrained as fact in the Alt-Right.
>>They are accused of racism, told to "check their privilege", etc. - almost as if they are supposed to be ashamed of being white.
They are not. This is in their own minds and not in reality. This, in particular, seems to be a blind spot among the Alt-Right.
>>Why is "black pride" laudable, but "white pride" is racist?
It is not. But we don't see many examples of "white pride." What we see is attacking blacks (and most minorities) as the cause of current conditions rather than pride for white achievements in and of themselves. (For example, waving the "Confederate flag" is not white pride. It's out and out racism.)
(Score: 2, Troll) by khallow on Friday December 30 2016, @02:18PM
>>They are accused of racism, told to "check their privilege", etc. - almost as if they are supposed to be ashamed of being white.
They are not. This is in their own minds and not in reality. This, in particular, seems to be a blind spot among the Alt-Right.
And a whole bunch of universities to name a prominent example you missed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:28PM
it's easy to avoid problems by redefining them as something else which is fine