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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: What Easter? Google Ignores Holiday, Instead Commemorates Cesar Chavez Googles 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, Googles 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-engines 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), Bings 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: Others simply found it strange: Googles 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 Googles own Doodles directory, where you may view the wide variety of Googles homepage odes, by year, dating back to 1998. Curiously, it honored St. Patricks Day earlier this month. So, St. Patricks Day? Yes. Easter? No. (Pictured above, Googles March 17, 2013 Doodle) Perhaps most interesting is that, despite President Obamas 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 Googles shunning of Easter in his favor. What do you think, Mediaite readers? Do you agree with Googles choice to commemorate Cesar Chavez instead of Easter, or are you offended by its choice? Follow AJ Delgado on Twitter Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 8.
#7. To: Big Meanie (#0)
Google is a hebe outfit, of course they won't acknowledge Easter Sunday.
Boiled down truth. They're drawing the lines in the sand. All I can do is say, "bring it." I'm not sure that there's another way.
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