What do you think about Google celebrating Cesar Chavez instead of Easter on their logo today?

It confused me.
When I realized it wasn’t even April I was all like “hey it can’t be Easter today!”
so I checked Google to see if they had an Easter theme just to make sure because I assumed they would have an Easter theme if it really was Easter.

Good. It is better to celebrate the birthday of a civil rights, workers’ rights and animal rights activist instead of a fictional rabbit.
Of course it made the RWNJs livid, but their tears are delicious.

Easter moves around – it has a span of 5–6 weeks in which it can appear in any given year.

Chavez has only one birthday, which is pretty constant from year to year :-)

Besides, there a whole lot of us who don’t celebrate Easter, so it was refreshing to have something non sectarian today. All the stores were closed.

Conservatives are outraged because they think it’s Hugo Chavez

@jaytkay – conservatives in California weren’t all that thrilled with Cesar Chavez either…

Easter is a religious holiday. Cesar Chavez is less controversial.

I haven’t seen the doodle, because I’m in Canada (no special doodle for us today), but I think it’s hilariously predictable that Americans would (a) mistake Cesar Chavez for Hugo Chavez, and (b) go apeshit because Google chooses to honour a man who worked his whole life to make people’s lives better instead of a magical egg-bearing bunny rabbit.

I’m sure there will be a lovely cartoon rabbit tomorrow. It will all be ok.

I think Google can recognize any person or occasion they want to. They don’t owe it to any particular group or individual to pay them a tribute.

I, for one, get pretty tired of the annual cycle of cartoonified emblems of attenuated holidays—visual tokens that seem to get more prolific, exaggerated, and hysterical the further we drift from collective awareness of the actual meaning of the date. Sometimes I wonder if there are any genuine holidays left in our culture.

@Jeruba Tishe B’Av

I think it’s wonderful. It made me really happy to see.

Works for me. Just wonder why they didn’t have dancing fruit.

They’re becoming cheap. Trying to save money on labor design obviously. Probably would’ve cost a couple thousand more design a bunny, some eggs and some sort of rising of Jesus to go along with Cesar Chavez.

I find it interesting. I know that a private company that caters to just about every person with any bit of technology in the world, as Google does, is going to tread lightly on religious matters. I would be kind of excited and amazed if they did a Christian doodle for Easter. Knowing that probably won’t happen, though, I would rather see them honor a good guy (although, honestly, I don’t know much about him) than see them celebrate a commercialized, childish ritual about a rabbit and eggs, which I’ve never really understood.

@RandomGirl The Easter Egg thing got blended into Christianity back when the Roman Emperor Constantine was trying to consolidate his political dominance over the known ancient world by rejiggering Christianity to appeal to the festivals and fetishes of all the prevalent ancient religions. Easter eggs relate back to the worship of Ashtaroth—The Queen of Heaven, AKA: Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre.

Note: this is not the Onion. Hold back the laughter. Tears are really more appropriate here.

Three guys are standing at the Pearly Gate and St. Peter says they each have
to answer a question correctly before they can get in. He turns to the first
and asks him to explain the meaning of Easter. “That’s easy,” he begins,
“that’s when the Pilgrims landed and you go out and buy a turkey and have lots
of good food….” St. Peter stops him and tells him he’s failed. He then
turns to the second man and asks the same question. The second man says,
“That’s easy. That’s when Jesus was born. You buy a tree and lots of presents
and…” St. Peter stops him, saying that he, too, has failed. He turns to the
third man and asks the same question. The third man says, “That’s easy.
That’s when Christ was crucified. He died and they took the body off the
cross, wrapped it in a shroud and put it in a cave and rolled a big stone
across the entrance…” St. Peter is astonished and says, “This is amazing.
This guy really knows his stuff.” He then instructs the man to continue. The
man goes on, “And after three days, they roll the stone away and if he sees his
shadow, there’s going to be six more weeks of winter.”

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And in the back, an annoyed Conan shouts “Enough Talk!”, and throws a dagger into Peter’s chest, who promptly falls over dead.

Google didn’t mark Eid, Passover, or Hanamatsuri either so it’s consistent with their behavior. Google has always been a social justice minded company.

I would suggest the whiners to use Bing, but Microsoft has an ad out for Outlook.com that’s centered around a wedding between lesbians.

At least they have Chick-Fil-A!

I think it’s okay, and yes @ETpro I’m a conservative and I think (nice generalization AGAIN though.) Most holidays are simply money-making scams perpetuated by business concerns, not religious concerns.

Believe it or not, I went to church yesterday for the first time in a long time and there was no mention of easter bunnies, eggs, candy or stupid decorations, so don’t put it on us.

I have a family member who has dropped Google and all other things associated with it because of this.
She spoke of how abhorrent it was that Google would celebrate someone who had caused the extermination of millions and millions.
Honestly, I think she confused Cesar with Hugo but when confronted with it she insisted that it didn’t matter, they both had the same communist philosophy and that this is what caused the exterminations she referred to.

@rojo Oy vey! Ignorance is…....

@janbb Scary?

(See question posed at your suggestion.)

@KNOWITALL Good choice of churches. Some generalization is necessary in order to even discuss how certain groups behave. There are 7 billion people alive on Earth today. Accurately discussing the actual behavior of the each of the currently living would require more words than anyone would ever read and more research than anyone could possibly accomplish while the study group continued to live.

@ETpro Okay, but it’s very misleading and it seems to be you are misinforming the fluther community when you do so.

@KNOWITALL, I have an aversion to such generalizations myself, but I don’t think anyone would have mistaken that remark for information. It was clearly phrased as an opinion.