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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: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday December 30 2016, @06:25PM
You say potato, i say deplorable.
If we all just started calling each other 'fuck-face', we'd all be sooooo much better off.
No niggers, no spics, no yellow-purplese. Just "Hey, fuck-face!"
come on... try it.
"Hey, fuck-face!"
"Our next commercial will feature THIS guy... fuck-face!"
"Use tampax facial products.... like fuck-face here!"
Man, "humans are the most intelligent species on earth", and we can't get over the fact that we are soooo fucking stupid.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 30 2016, @07:14PM
INT and WIS are separate stats for a reason you know...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:07AM
Yeah, it's because the people who invented the system didn't have high INT and had to invent a stat to make them feel better about themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:42PM
I have a feeling this will appeal to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9grD7HKhkw [youtube.com]
NSFW language.