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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: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:04PM
"Stop bitching"? You are the one bitching about how somehow the politicians that you elected are not responsible for the poor economy in your state.
GROW UP! Take some responsibility for your actions.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:19PM
Was I? I'm pretty sure I wasn't. There's no sense in complaining that water is wet or that politicians are full of shit. Perhaps you should go back and have another read.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:36PM
I did go back and re-read and, yes, you are trying to place blame on politicians other than the ones you put into power. As, I said, grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your own voting record.
Quite simply, the reason Red States tend to be poor is the policies enacted by their own leaders. Policies that keep people uneducated and poor, while a few people become very rich.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:46AM
Right, so if I already said just what you said, I'm bitching but you're being informative? SMFH
My rights don't end where your fear begins.