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Google Doesn't Have Easter Doodles
Google Doesn't Have Easter Doodles
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called UPDATE: What Easter? Google Ignores Holiday, Instead Commemorates Cesar Chavez | Mediaite
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UPDATE: What Easter? Google Ignores Holiday, Instead Commemorates Cesar Chavez
Google’s homepage is known for its ‘Doodles‘ — temporary changes to its homepage logo to commemorate certain days. As defined by Google, its homepage changes are meant “to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.”
But on Easter Sunday, a day celebrated by over one billion around the world and by the vast majority of Americans, Google’s homepage is mum on the holiday. Instead, Google chose to commemorate Big Labor icon Cesar Chavez. (In 2011, President Obama designated March 31 as Cesar Chavez day.)
Meanwhile, the search-engine’s chief competitor, Bing, chose to honor the holiday with a display of multi-cultural Easter eggs. While the image is largely secular (understandable for an inclusive celebration), Bing’s homepage at least acknowledges the holiday.
Google has previously received criticism for ignoring Christian holidays, including its refusal to include the word ‘Christmas’ on its December 25th logos or sometimes not even changing the logo on December 25th at all.
Many on Twitter are declaring their intent to boycott Google:
Google’s homepage has steadfastly refused to acknowledge Easter for several years, while choosing to celebrate a myriad of little-known events and holidays. Click here for Google’s own ‘Doodles’ directory, where you may view the wide variety of Google’s homepage odes, by year, dating back to 1998. Curiously, it honored St. Patrick’s Day earlier this month. So, St. Patrick’s Day? Yes. Easter? No.
(Pictured above, Google’s March 17, 2013 Doodle)
Perhaps most interesting is that, despite President Obama’s understandable declaration of a day to commemorate a Latino icon, Chavez remains a highly divisive figure. The co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union was reportedly a staunch opponent of illegal immigration, known to personally patrol the border and even report illegal immigrants to the INS. During a time when the nation ponders immigration reform, Cesar Chavez is perhaps more controversial than ever. And the greatest irony is that Chavez, a devout Catholic, would likely be one of those most upset by Google’s shunning of Easter in his favor.
readers? Do you agree with Google’s choice to commemorate Cesar Chavez instead of Easter, or are you offended by its choice?
“We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site. Sometimes for a given date we feature an historical event or influential figure that we haven’t in the past.”
Though Google’s response indicates it made a choice between highlighting Easter or Cesar Chavez, the response does not address, however, why Google has not highlighted the Easter holiday in 13 years (its last Easter ‘Doodle’ was in the year 2000).
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A quick search in Google Doodles also shows they have no doodles for Eid, Ramadan, Hannukah, Yom Kipur, or Diwali.
Ie. They have no religious holidays from any faiths.
But people are already using this to talk about "Christian persecution", "white persecution", "political correctness taking over", because of course they are. Like most of their "evidence", it's a misrepresentation of facts. Yet through prolonged misrepresentation by articles such as this, we've ended up in some perverse world where "PC" is at the top of people's political priorities.
If an article is obviously designed to make you angry, always fact-check it.
Either which way I personally wish that they would post Christmas doodles (for example) and then the next year switch it up and do Hannukkah the next year. Stuff like that. Instead of celebrating no religions, they should try to do a doodle for each of them.
Seriously though, many "PC gone mad" articles are trying to push that agenda and are terrible, terrible journalism. This one in particular is completely dishonest.
Looking at the doodles thing, yeah I tried various terms for a few religions. I can't find anything. Like I said, it be cool if they had doodles to represent a bunch of religious holidays. It's like the Starbucks Cup thing--stupid as that discourse was--instead of taking away the Christmas designs, I think that they should have added Hanukkah and Kwanzaa symbols too. Something to get everyone into the holiday cheer, ya know?
I'm more of a give to all instead of take away from all person.
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