You may recall me telling you about Hanuman: Boy Warrior last week, a PS2 title that got the The Universal Society of Hinduism all pissed off because it makes light of the adventures of Lord Hanuman, a monkey god who the Hindu venerate. Society president Rajan Zed now claims that Sony has agreed to investigate their claims, per GamePolitics:
Replying to the communiqué of Bhavna Shinde of Forum for Hindu Awakening, Keita Sanekata of Sony Electronics Inc wrote, “We will review this issue, and get back to you as soon as possible.”
Advancing the protest spearheaded by acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, Shinde earlier wrote Sanekata to “look into withdrawing this game and publishing an apology, so as to prevent further denigration of our Deity Sree Hanuman and intensifying of our protests..."
This information came out in a press release from the Society recently. It's also worth noting they had a similar reaction to the 2008 Mike Myers film The Love Guru, which you can read all about here. Bottom line: don't make movies about the Hindu. Or music, or books, or greeting cards, or interpretative dances. Just ignore any inspiration you might happen to be feeling about their culture, because you just can't do so without pissing them off. I hear taking yourself slightly less seriously works wonders, guys.
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also fuck the religion that got offended by "faith fighter" (or whatever the hell that shit flash game was called)
lighten the fuck up.
"What's that Hindu society? You're offended by Monkey Man? But it has nothing to do with Lord Hanuman. Piss off."
Seriously, political correctness needs to be bitched slapped more often.
Suck it, zealots.
Seriously, political correctness needs to be bitched slapped more often. x 2
Fuck dem, If I had a dump truck full of fucks, fuck no I wouldn't give NONE
Re: The actual post, I suppose the content of the actual game is what matters and assuming the dudes who made it were Hindus I doubt there's a problem with that, twitch reactions with no consideration fail. After all, it's just a representation of the deity and if it brings enjoyment to people then so be it. Then again, if you imagine the shitstorm that would come from a game about Jesus I think it's actually fairly impressive that the complaint is so small.
(FYI, the caste system was pretty much destroyed following Indian independance. Given that most feudal systems (which amount to the same thing) within Western Europe developed in this fashion about 10,000 years after the text was written regarding that it's pretty damn advanced)
not that i don't think it's stupid, badly made.
the biggest insult i feel is that it wasn't even considered for the ps3 and was for the ps2.
Also, this is not a hindu problem, its obviously a RELIGIOUS problem (*pointing finger at Christianity and Islam).
Natural20 - you have to realize that Free Speech also means the freedom to insult people and get insulted. Insults and Hate Speech are different things. Insults hurt feelings, while Hate Speech actively incites violence. Hate speech should be banned, Insults should never be banned.
I'm an atheist. Go ahead, insult me. Even if you don't feel like doing it. Go on. I'll take the insult, and you know what? I won't do anything. Nothing at all.
Every culture has bad, VERY bad parts to it. My culture, Australian culture, has far too much drinking and domestic violence. Hindu culture, also, has many problems with it. In recent years, Hindu nationalists have tried to get anything remotely "western" banned in India, going so far as to slam Coca-Cola and Pepsi for being "wrong". They also tried to unoffically ban valentines day and some tried to whack any woman seen on a bar on that day (not the "kill" whack, I'm talking about the old fashion whacking). India is pretty much split into two societies at this point - the people in the modern cities who are forward thinking and developed and generally great people all-around, and the people in the remote villages who are superstitious as hell, intolerant and a bit crazy (like many rednecks in deep south USA, or in the outback in Australia, or in the remote provinces of China).
Hinduism, like all religions, are not a good thing when allowed to have too much power. Right now, in India, too many priests and whatnot have GENUINE power over its followers, instructing them to do this or that, or demanding their orders be carried out. In the west, priests can say stuff, but most people ignore them. The problem with India is that religion is still too powerful, the preists and the clergy still run their rural villages like their own personal clan. I know the government in India is doing their best to stamp out such nonsense, and I hope they do.
Christianity has also had its share of witch-burnings, book burnings, intolerant periods - but that stopped about 200 years ago in most Western Countries. I know in my heart that India will also stop the "crazies" from remaining in power.
and about the caste system: it had little to do with religion, and nothing to do with spirituality, it was a societal device that only false prophets followed. The enlightened masters never followed it.
saying that is like saying Islam is all about taking away rights, or that Christianity is about stoning people to death.
i'd honestly rather talk about video games than this bullshit
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