Discussion: Cadillac Disavows Commerical Casting Notice For 'Alt-Right (Neo Nazi)' Actors

One of the problems with this country is that ‘alt-right’ people are pretty much indistinguishable from ‘ordinary’ Americans. It used to be you could spot the ‘alt-right’ people by their white sheets. Unfortunately, you can’t do that any more.

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New slogan: This is not your fuhrer’s Cadillac!

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I’d like to know, what is the agency’s name and I sure hope they’re fired!

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At least it would be one role Hollywood couldn’t whitewash.

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Dind, DIng, DIng!!! You have won Comment of the Day! :joy:

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The notice was drafted by an employee, who was immediately terminated for her actions.

I am sure Bannon will find her a Cabinet position in the Trump Admin.

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As someone who grew up going to Detroit once a month in the 1960’s, I would have believed it if it was Lincoln who was advertising for alt-right models.

What ? No tattoos ?

this is a good thing. it forces people to publicly reject alt-right sickos.

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This is why we need to kill the term “alt right”. Too many people don’t really understand what it means. It sounds to me like the person who generated this casting call seems to think Alt Right is some diverse group with a particular style, like the whole grunge thing in the 90s. That’s why we need to call them white supremacists. There’s no mistaking what that means.

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Needless to say, I won’t be buying a Cadillac.

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Me either. I can’t help but chuckle at Cadillac’s swift response. The very last thing they need is for black people to think their brand is racist and stop buying their cars. If black folks stopped buying Cadillacs, they’d go out of business tomorrow.

This is not meant to be offensive in any way. Just a representation of all sides.

Holy fuck this is a scary normalization of neo-Nazism. If “all sides” knowingly includes neo-Nazis, it absolutely should be (and I’d say is, to sane people) offensive.

The alt-right, neo-Nazi “side” should be ridiculed and shunned at every opportunity. These are the most-deplorable of the deplorables and no effort need be made to “reach” or “include” them. Holy crap I can’t even believe this needs to be said.

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All of Indiana is disappointed their budding acting careers have had yet another outlet for their skills foreclosed on them.

  >     Needless to say, I won't be buying a Cadillac.

I won’t either, but not because of this. I actually believe that there is no way that Cadillac would have condoned such a casting call. This is most likely what they said–the action of one rogue (or dumb) employee in the casting agency. Cadillac owes way too much of its market to sales to minorities to be this insensitive intentionally.

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“…This is not meant to be offensive in any way. Just a representation of all sides.”

Curious phrasing.
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– I now see boidster’s less circumspect take, above-- what he said.

As sinister and terrifying as so many of the developments in recent months have been, I’m going to assume this one is just some advertising goof thinking alt-right is “hot” and has “buzz” and is “edgy” without really grasping what the hell it actually is, and maybe being so young and ignorant that Nazis are no more meaningful than any other movie villains. You can go right to the top in marketing and advertising and at every step you’d find incredibly vapid people who just chatter the latest buzzwords and sniff the winds for the next big thing. Trust me, I’ve worked with people like that. A few years back they’d have been hiring real-live-dead flesh-eating zombies if they could have because that would have been hot with the buzzing and the edgy. Just everyday stupidity, nothing to see here, that’s my guess. We’ll see lots of other bad stuff happen before we see Nazis being used in car commercials. At least I hope so.

Well, that might be true if they would just STFU. I find them pretty easy to spot.

Very good point. What we need is a Frank Luntz type of approach to naming things. They seems so good at coming up with terms like ‘pro-life’ and ‘right to work’. Who’s against life or the right to work? Instead of alt-right, how 'bout we call it Nazi-light? Someone should come up with a naming contest.