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The Onion Presents the Hindu God Vishnu as call center operator


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Funny? Not really, right? Kind of un-funny, isn't it?

Here's what Vineet Chander had to say:

I just don't find this Vishnu "Please hold..." ad funny. There is plenty of fodder for good, smart humor relating to the Indian subcontinent or to Hinduism. The malaria reference and lampooning a multiple-armed deity seem to go for easy, cheap laughs instead. Instead of finding something that we could all laugh along with, the Onion seems content in giving us something sufficiently exotic that some of us can laugh at. What a shame!

True, no?
Spiral9

4 responses // The Onion Presents the Hindu God Vishnu as call center operator

  • What line can we draw from being funny to being offensive?
    Spiral9
  • Funny, get over it. Its a political statement that is supposed to be funny. Also, its not like this doesn't happen to every other "deity".
    aharvath
  • Spiral9, I also find this deeply offensive. Westerners generally have no concept of a personal God and they have no respect for anything foreign or even unusual and hard to understand. This is a result of their own narrow and intolerant indoctrination. For those that take fun in berating the sacred images of people with different beliefs, I would like them to laugh at the image of their own mothers happily being sodomized by dogs.
    Now, isn't that a funny sight?
    jc911truth
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