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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 looorg on Friday December 30 2016, @03:12PM
It's really hard to take this kinda news seriously. Nobody tries to sell their wares, cars or whatnot, with actual neo-nazis. It would devastate their entire brand and business. You are never going to see the McAdolf burger, the AryanMobile, the Zyklon B pesticide (again) or whatever other fantasy someone might dream up. Ad-people and casting services do this crap all the time, it's typecasting - they are looking for types or people with attributes they associate with one thing or another. In this case it would seem that they have already adopted the liberal agenda and language where words or groups like alt-right and neo-nazis are now just codewords for white people. They wanted some real pale and white folks to try and sell their cars. Apparently they didn't want this to get out and now they scramble to blame each other or just anyone but themselves. Which sadly makes the whole concept of actual Nazism lose all meaning but they don't really care about that. Which is why we see all this crap about how everything is like Nazis, fascism or whatever else it is that the left doesn't like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:39PM
So neo-nazi/alt-right is the white equivalent to the urban market. The more you know.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday December 30 2016, @06:47PM
So neo-nazi/alt-right is the white equivalent to the urban market. The more you know.
I would assume so, they certainly make it seem like it is. 'Alt-Right' is like heartland America, aka the red-states. White folks that don't live in the metropolises of multiculturism along the east and west coasts.