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posted by on Friday December 30 2016, @09:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-provide-tattoos-for-right-applicant dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Friday December 30 2016, @03:25PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday December 30 2016, @03:25PM (#447455) Homepage Journal

    The alt-right are people who think (according to the man who coined the word who is an unabashed racist and white nationalist) that whites are superior to everyone else and demand the right to call people "niggers" and "fags" but object to being called racist or biased.

    You say "politically correct", I say "polite and respectful". Not calling black people "niggers" is NOT being "politically correct", and calling them "niggers" is not civilized behavior.

    Nor is bragging that you can assault women because you're a rich asshole, like your disgusting billionaire you voted for.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 30 2016, @03:53PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 30 2016, @03:53PM (#447460) Journal

    "like your disgusting billionaire you voted for"

    I wasn't aware that Johnson is a billionaire.

    https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?sid=16416&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=424539#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

    You, McGrew, seem to be far to smart to lump me with any group, just because I disagree with American style liberals/progressives/democrats. I've come to expect that out of the denser portions of the left. I even expect it from the more obtuse members of the right. But, you? Come on, man.

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:12PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:12PM (#447899) Homepage Journal

      That was a plural "you", you've mentioned being a Johnson supporter before. BTW, we've had three President Johnsons so far, and all three did crappy jobs. Fourth time's a charm?

      Out of four viable choices, we picked the worst one (again, a collective "we", not you or me).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @04:04PM (#447468)

    The alt-right are people who think (according to the man who coined the word who is an unabashed racist and white nationalist) that whites are superior to everyone else

    Inaccurate [tabletmag.com]

    You say "politically correct", I say "polite and respectful".

    While calling conservatives white supremacists?

    Nor is bragging that you can assault women because you're a rich asshole, like your disgusting billionaire you voted for.

    It could have been worse, fortunately neither Bill Clinton nor Bill Cosby were on the ticket.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:05PM (#447620)

    according to the man who coined the word

    Then we should obey his definition and people should stop using "alt-right" to label people who voted straight ticket Republican like they do every year, people who want to play video games without people screaming how terrible they are, people who want to dress up for Halloween, etc. etc. I can do all that and still not call people the n-word, assault women or demand they stay in the kitchen, or whatever else you're thinking of.

    Because none of those things have anything at all to do with white superiority, except insofar as certain snowflakes feel microaggressed if someone, somewhere enjoys something not approved by their superior PC squad.