For Easter.... Google Honors Cesar Chavez's 86th Birthday

[trailmonkee]

Good for Google!

[djean111]

1. Good for them!!!!!!!

[baldguy]

2. I'm sure the "Christians" will have a problem with this.

Because, they need Google to remind them about Zombie Jesus.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. That's gonna rattle a few cages, for sure

How DARE they honor that rabble-rouser instead of our [s]pagan fertility rite[/s] holiest of days!

On edit: the DU dashboard apparently doesn't provide for 'strikethrough,' and the bracketed 's' and '/s' around 'pagan fertility rite' didn't work either.

[earthside]

4. A controversy at ...

Drudge and the Daily Caller.

That' all I see.

Nevertheless, Easter is 'celebration' for a religious sect.
The birthday of Cesar Chavez is a documented fact ... no mythology involved.

Since Google is available for all kinds of people, regardless of religious beliefs, they made the correct call, if it really matters.

[movonne]

11. I'm so sick of this religious crap shoved down

everyone's throat....like you can't have two things going on the same day...Chavez and the people who love him have a right to celebrate is birthday...

[Initech]

20. The Drudge Report is still relevant?

You couldn't find a more perfect textbook definition of a troll than Matt Drudge.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Good for Google

Celebrate the birthday of a man who actually existed and left a legacy for good instead of a myth that has done immense harm for centuries.

[Andy Stanton]

6. Google is a private corporation

The last time I looked.
It can do whatever it wants as long as it complies with the law.
If folks don't like it they are free to take their business elsewhere.
Like I do with Fox - never watch it and never will as long as it's a right wing mouthpiece.

[TM99]

7. March 31st is Cesar Chavez Day

It just happens to coincide with Easter this year.

Google is in CA where it is an official state holiday.

Really there is no conspiracy on either side.

[tabbycat31]

22. I don't know much about Cesar Chavez day

Perhaps because I live on the east coast, but is this day also his birthday?

(It's my birthday too and I like to know who I'm in company with).

[TM99]

23. Yes, today was his birthday.

I have learned more about Cesar Chavez since moving to Arizona from the east coast many decades ago.

I thought is was a wonderful coincidence. Chavez was a better Christian than most who claim to be so today.

[tabbycat31]

24. you learn something every day

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Tears came to my eyes when I saw his picture yesterday.

Thank you Google.

[Raine]

21. Me too. I wish he was still here, he's missed and needed. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Jesus is pissed as is the right wing

Radical right-wing “conservatives” Michelle Malkin, Ben Shapiro, and some people named Pat Dollard and Ed Driscoll are bunny-hopping mad that Google is honoring the birthday of Mexican-American civil rights and labor leader César Chávez on Easter Sunday — instead of Jesus — by giving him today’s Google Doodle. So very Christ-like of them.


Michelle Malkin, a Roman Catholic (as was Chávez,) via her Twitchy website that masquerades as a news site: Google’s Easter insult sparks Twitter backlash, mockery

Pat Dollard: TYPICALLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN LEFTIST COMPANY GOOGLE HONORS CESAR CHAVEZ ON EASTER SUNDAY INSTEAD OF JESUS

And this, via Breitbart’s resident bully, Ben Shapiro:

March 31 marks the birthday of National Farm Workers Association (later United Farm Workers) co-founder Cesar Chavez. Chavez, who was trained by Saul Alinsky in the tactics of community organizing, has become a cult figure in California due to his organization of agricultural workers. March 31 also happens to be another important date this year: Easter. So, naturally, Google’s current logo features a graphic of Chavez’s face, rather than anything having to do with Easter.

This is not the first time that Google has chosen to honor leftists over tradition. Back on July 4, Google plastered the words “This Land Was Made For You And Me” in its logo, in honor of Communist fellow-traveler Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land. On Christmas, Google featured a holiday-themed logo that popped up this window: “Happy Holidays from Google!”

The anti-Chávez, anti-Google ignorance is in full bloom on Twitter, via the hashtag #GoogleMottos. Chávez, a Roman Catholic, was instrumental in organizing and obtaining basic rights for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida, and co-founded the National Farm Workers Association which became the United Farm Workers union (UFW). Chávez’s biography at the César Chávez Foundation notes:

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/good-christian-michelle-malkin-bunny-hopping-mad-google-honors-cesar-chavez-on-easter/politics/2013/03/31/63896

[donquijoterocket]

13. evidence

Of why I do not, nor probably ever will have, a Twitter account. It's a good thing their limit is 140 characters rather than 140 words which might challenge the upper vocabulary limits of some of these dolts.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Many thought it was Hugo not Caesar

they can't even read or google.

[trailmonkee]

16. soooo funny watching the freak outs

[BeeBee]

25. Buzzfeed did a great article about this.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/people-who-think-google-is-honoring-hugo-chavez

The funny part is that they can't even admit that they were wrong.

[sarge43]

10. Great portrait of a great man.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Nixon eats grapes

See the first two posts in my journal: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=155620



K&R!

[DhhD]

14. Google did not miss its chance to message the new Catholic Platform of the recognition of the

working poor. There are 1 billion Catholics world wide. There is a new Pope honoring the fact that women washed the feet of Christ and used their hair to dry his feet. I believe that Google took the middle ground as it could not come up with a woman of our times, it found a man of our times who was in great service to the working poor of the world.

[Initech]

18. March 31st is Cesar Chavez Day.

Obama dedicated today to honor the labor rights activist. The fact that today is also Easter is just a coincidence. I'm glad that Google is honoring him, the world needs more of him and less Waltons, Kochs, and Kardashians in this world.

[Initech]

17. Who low information voters have mistaken for Hugo Chavez.

[Cha]

19. And, thank you President Obama for making that

so. Cesar Chavez!

thanks trailmonkee