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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: 5, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Friday December 30 2016, @06:20PM
Now read this very carefully because I am going to tell you something about myself and hopefully it will tell you something about yourself.
I am not white. I am not American. I am not European. I have lived for quite many years in Europe. I have my family ties with people who are married to white European women and most of my college friends are living all over the world. I have lived for around 6 months in USA. I cannot vote in USA elections but such is the power of USA that my government is directly effected by it, my language is effected by it via media and my thinking is effected by it via reading too much crap online. And there is a lot of crap like the one you posted. I am not even christian. And there are many like me. Most of my friends were south American (not Mexican, though) and my best friends were black, both Nigerian who hated each other. I digress.
I have some opinions. I consider myself left to the center. I was raised by a feminist mother and my father is university professor. There are a couple of issues that I don't agree with on-point with liberals, i.e., the communist deconstruction of the world. The first time I mentioned it on Twitter, I was told that I support Broke Turner, was compared to some white dude who killed some people (I never bothered to research it, my country doesn't allow people to have guns so it is of no use to me). I was told I am alt-right.
Now you tell me that alt-right was coined by some dude you hate. And you tell me it is because you are not racist and that guy is. You know what? Both of you are racists and that is the fact. When I left Europe back in 2010 I proclaimed out loudly that Right is coming and it is coming fast and I was proven right (forgive the pun). You know why? Because you are not liberal. Liberalism is just a hammer for you to put down other people so you can feel good about yourself, to make yourself feel superior and maybe powerful after a resounding defeat. You know who is liberal? Every poor man is liberal because he doesn't have time to think about other people. Children are liberal for they don't care much about ego. Liberalism is by nature politically correct - IT IS EASY.
It is YOU who gave importance to whoever coined the term alt-right. It is YOU who gave alt-right a personality. It is my civil-disobedience to accept that personality and then show you what it really looks like. You and very disappointingly mcgrew have shown exactly what I mentioned in the very first line of my comment: grouping together under loosely defined definitions and then name-calling and bad-mouthing each other. I have never been a racist - I challenge anyone to show anything racist I have said. YOU have called me alt-right. Ergo alt-right is not racist. QED. But you don't have the balls to go to some politician and say - "you are wrong, alt-right is not what you say, it is different". YOU are his supporter. It is EASY for you to say otherwise to me.
THIS IS why Trump is there and world is still not going ape-shit insane. Democrats made him, not just by funding but by literally running his campaign for him. And also, you fight incorrectness with correctness, you fight correctness with political correctness. For as long as Trump is president you should remember that you cannot fight incorrectness with political correctness, because Truth doesn't need adjective, much less one named "political".
I have been called nigger by many who agree with me on the points that actually matter to me. I also stand with many who hate being called the n-word but agree with me. The racists are no worse than the many liberals who would throw me under rock for being "almost certainly not a she" (the same people who will say women are biologically no different than men, thereby showing their double-think).
This is what is called projection [wikipedia.org] which happens very frequently with the politically correct. Lecture about getting a wider perspective, from a guy who doesn't even know his own goddamn local politics. Seriously, with the amount of disappointment liberals have with their countrymen, why are they so much for gun control?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:39AM
> You know what? Both of you are racists and that is the fact.
Yeah. He who smelt it dealt it!
We all know that's how racism works.
#whitegermicide
(Score: 2) by fubari on Saturday December 31 2016, @08:44AM
Cubancigar11, nicely written, very interesting. You have given me some interesting things to think about - thank you.