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>โGoogle snubbed Easter with no doodle for 18th year in a row, Christians say,โ
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/04/02/18-years-of-google-doodles-and-the-people-who-hate-them/
By Avi Selk
April 2, 2018 at 3:38 p.m. EDT
Sunday was Easter, when, according to a long-standing tradition, people all over the world become incensed by cartoons on a search bar.
โGoogle snubbed Easter with no doodle for 18th year in a row, Christians say,โ Fox News reported, citing an Infowars editor and actor James Woods as two Christians.
Sure enough, both men were upset that the holy day had not been marked with a visual pun on Googleโs homepage โ a Google Doodle.
โThey loathe Christians,โ Woods surmised, and he seemed to speak for many.
As Fox noted, Google says it does not make doodles for religious holidays anymore. The last time an Easter egg graced its homepage was in 2000 โ near the beginning of the companyโs doodling tradition and its usersโ tradition of taking offense at the cartoons no matter what they do or donโt depict.
Provocation: A doodle of Earth
Google Doodles started as an obscure joke, as Slate recounted. The companyโs founders first tweaked the logo to let users know they were at the 1998 Burning Man festival. Three years later, Google changed the double Os in its logo to two globes, for Earth Day 2001.
Earth Day Tips Google Doodle https://t.co/c1ZGjhnk30 #GoogleDoodle #EarthDay pic.twitter.com/x0SNPyr8Bl
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Provocation: A doodle of a poppy
By choosing certain holidays as doodle-worthy, even ones as bland as Earth Day, Google was by implication snubbing others. โIn the eight years of their existence, theyโve never mentioned Christ,โ radio host James Edwards complained in the mid-2000s, noting a complete absence of Christmas doodles, to say nothing of Easter.
But these holidays could at least be rejected on secular grounds; Google claimed not to honor any explicitly religious festival. It couldnโt do the same with patriotic events.
โFor the 8th year in a row, Google has made no effort to commemorate any holiday honoring U.S. veterans or war dead,โ WorldNetDaily.com wrote in 2006. โNo tributes to Veterans Day or Memorial Day.โ
Faced with a flood of upset users, Google claimed that those holidays were too reverent for the jokey nature of a doodle. But WorldNetDaily was suspicious, noting that Google had added poppies to its logo just a few days earlier โ to mark โthe Canadian version of the U.S. Veterans Day,โ also known as Remembrance Day.
Not sure whether Iโm more disappointed that the poppy is red or that isnโt incorporated in a Google doodle (with a link). pic.twitter.com/j2CfcvrbPt
โ Anna Nicholson (@transponderings) November 11, 2017
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Provocation: A doodle of a fossil
If a Soviet satellite was too polarizing, maybe the world could rally around a 50-million-year-old fossil? Surely the lemur-like Darwinius masillae had no objectionable politics.
Naturally, the fossilโs 2009 doodle offended creationists. โNot everyone is jumping on the monkey-man bandwagon,โ WorldNetDaily wrote, after asking Google whether the newly discovered fossil had proved the theory of evolution.
This later doodle also caused some issues, for similar reasons:
Nice Google Doodle today - The Lucy Australopithecus fossil. pic.twitter.com/KFZr9XMfNY
โ Nick Spence (@Nickfromupnorth) November 24, 2015
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Provocation: A doodle of President John F. Kennedy
Google released a portrait of JFK on its homepage in 2011, on the 50th anniversary of his inauguration.
Upon seeing this, a National Review writer preemptively worried that President Ronald Reagan wouldnโt get a doodle on his 100th birthday the next month.
Reagan, in fact, did not get a doodle (though Kennedy didnโt get one on his 100th birthday, either).
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Provocation: โNot Jesus.โ
If Googleโs two-decade moratorium on Easter doodles infuriated some, you can imagine the reaction in 2013, when the holiday happened to fall on the birthday of labor organizer Cesar Chavez, who got a doodle.
Fox News summed up the backlash: โOn Easter Sunday, Google Honors Cesar Chavez, Not Jesus.โ
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Provocation: Non-white veterans
Veterans Day 2015, 11/11/15, UnitedStates. #Google #Doodle pic.twitter.com/Auae3XajKp
โ Wiki Doodle (@WikiDoodle) November 22, 2015
The Veterans Day conundrum may just be a no-win situation for Google. With the Islamic crescent controversy long behind it, the company made a doodle in 2015 of various veterans smiling and waving.
But as RT.com notes, the veterans werenโt white enough for some.
Provocation: A high school studentโs mural
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