NEW YORK—Responding to widespread pro-Palestinian demonstrations taking place at colleges across the country, CEO Ron Burgess issued a warning Tuesday that no student involved in the protests would ever be hired at Genocide Inc. “Given the lack of decency they have shown, Genocide Inc. has decided it will not be…
It was supposed to be a joke referring to the fact that The Onion used to use fake company Global Tetrahedron for this sort of article, but a bunch of fans of The Onion got together and formed a company called Global Tetrahedron and bought The Onion while it was recently being sold off.
So, the joke was that they had to invent Genocide, Inc. to replace it.
I don’t think people here got the joke.
While I knew about the above I still didn’t really get your joke. Calling the fake company Genocide Inc. is kind of integral to their joke, in that the students are protesting against a genocide. If the headline was about Global Tetrahedron not hiring protesters (even before the real one existed) it wouldn’t really make much sense.
Sure, but my joke made sense in context
I got the joke. It was good.