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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @09:09PM
> Most alt-righters are typical of the many people who supported Trump [umich.edu]
Oh look! Brad is lying by omission to make his position seem like its some sort of super-majority.
Here's that same graph [umich.edu] scaled by population and then colored by the percentage of the vote. Not really overwhelmingly red anymore is it?
If there is one thing you can count on, its that brad has absolutely no problem using intellectual dishonesty to support his arguments. Its comforting in a way, because once you recognize the pattern you realize its a confession that not only is he wrong, but he knows he's wrong but instead of changing his mind to fit the facts, he'd prefer to lie instead. Which means nothing he says should be trusted.
For the curious, here is the full article. [umich.edu]