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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 garrulus on Friday December 30 2016, @06:20PM
No the (be it very loosely defined) alt right exists, and got tracktion after the left sped up the immivasion of the native white european lands of europa and north america last year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @06:22PM
North american "native white lands"
That's rich!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @06:24PM
North America was native white? Huh. So what the hell were all those Indians doing here when {Columbus|Ericsson|The Puritans} landed here?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @07:13PM
You liberals need to be spanked sometimes.
The OP said "native white European lands of Europe", which means exactly that.
Then OP said "and North America", which is not connected to "native". But as whites have been plowing that land for centuries and developing it, so it belongs to them now. Or maybe you want to end up with a Zimbabwe?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @09:12PM
Okay first of all, NO ONE but my girlfriend spanks me.
Second: If you really wanna argue a "possession is 9/10ths of the law" position, that means you're not going to bitch at China when they start taking over pieces of Africa, wrest the Senkaku Islands from Japan, and hey, who knows, maybe even start buying up massive pieces of US land, riiiiiight?
...boy, you're a stupid motherfucker, ain't'cha?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday December 30 2016, @09:16PM
No, garrulus specifically said “Europa.” I'm assuming that they're confirming that there is, in fact, intelligent life there and that they've also been overrun by a lizard person invasion. That would explain why the main subspace relay between Sol and Thuban is in the northern atmosphere of Saturn.
I propose a manly combination of our technologies to create some kind of superdimensional fortress capable of transforming into a giant mech armed with a wave motion gun!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:19PM
> The OP said "native white European lands of Europe", which means exactly that.
Except they even those aren't white. It was only about a century ago that anyone other than anglos and saxons were considered white. Don't believe me? Just ask Ben Franklin:
And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. — Benjamin Franklin [columbia.edu]