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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: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday December 30 2016, @11:14PM
One hundred and fourty comments, and no one has answered the original (implied) question: "What make and model of automobile is appropriate for the alt-right?" The old conservative right drove Oldsmobiles. American middle-class drives nothing like a Buick. Nothing says British useless class more than a Bentley or Rolls-Royce. Nothing says Belieber like a Lamborgini. Latte-drinking Volvos, anyone? So why would it be Cadillac? Shouldn't Neo-Nazis be driving the Car of the People? (National Socialist Car!!) The VolksWagon. But a la Trump, Hitler usually rolled in a 1941 Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser W150 Offener Tourenwagen. [theguardian.com] (Black, not Gold). So what does this Banner guy drive? Or the Spendcer? I bet Milo drives a VW!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:34AM
"What make and model of automobile is appropriate for the alt-right?"
Now that Hummer is gone, my guess is either the F-150 or Wrangler.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:59AM
What? The Hummer is gone? But as to the Wrangler and F150, those are traditional right, not alt-right. And those I know in the American Military seem to prefer the Rubicon, for somewhat obscure reasons. The F150 has gone the way of all Ford products, starting out as a fairly decent vehicle, and then bloating beyond all practical reason, much like happened to the Thunderbird. Besides, what about the Mustang? Named after a Tibetan breed of horses, fitted with a sound system to fake engine noise, making America Grate Again? No, still just old school redneck (think: General Lee, muscle cars), not alt-right, which seems to be much more metro-sexual, post-factual, and in line with Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of Conspicuous Consumption". [wikipedia.org]
[Makes me think, though. Outside of the US Military leaving all those behemoths overseas, was it intentional that the Military Industrial Complex produced a replacement for the Willy's Jeep that could not be made road-legal, or fit in a normal garage? Hmmm, instant planned obsolecense.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @01:40PM
The alt-right drives a Toyota to the grocery store and the media calls it a Panzer and claims they invaded Poland with it.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:57PM
Are you trying to claim the grocery store attacked first? Or were there alt-right settlements already in the grocery store, so it was a case of Lebensraum?