Google doodle celebrates a Maoist, anti-American, non-black black separatist

[Derec]

Wrongly called a "civil rights leader". More like "uncivil wrongs" leader.

Google commemorates a very controversial civil-rights figure, Yuri Kochiyama

In the final years of her life, Kochiyama also expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden. Kochiyama told a reporter with the Los Angeles Indymedia that she considered bin Laden a freedom fighter, akin to Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro.

How the hell does Google choose people to celebrate with their doodles? It's getting ridiculously far-left-wing partisan.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Maybe Google is trolling? Jerking the chain of right wingers?

 

[Deepak]

I wonder how many people railing against the doodle never heard of her until they googled her name

 

[fromderinside]

Wrongly called a "civil rights leader". More like "uncivil wrongs" leader.

Google commemorates a very controversial civil-rights figure, Yuri Kochiyama

In the final years of her life, Kochiyama also expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden. Kochiyama told a reporter with the Los Angeles Indymedia that she considered bin Laden a freedom fighter, akin to Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro.

How the hell does Google choose people to celebrate with their doodles? It's getting ridiculously far-left-wing partisan.

I guess if we can condemn someone for calling a spade and spade and saying "If you've seen one redwood you've seen them all" you can condemn one who actually wasn't a separatist a separatist and one who actually had reason to hate america for hating america.

Just as you can admire the same guy as above who ran as the model for not running, we can admire the woman who stayed and fought for not running after she was abused again and again for being Japanese.

It makes me happy she lead the fight for internment reparations that actually got reparations.

Feeling the bern yet?.

 

[untermensche]

Nothing wrong with being anti-US foreign policy.

To support it is something that should be held against people.

 

[laughing dog]

This is something to whine about? Really?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Wrongly called a "civil rights leader". More like "uncivil wrongs" leader.

Google commemorates a very controversial civil-rights figure, Yuri Kochiyama

In the final years of her life, Kochiyama also expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden. Kochiyama told a reporter with the Los Angeles Indymedia that she considered bin Laden a freedom fighter, akin to Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro.

How the hell does Google choose people to celebrate with their doodles? It's getting ridiculously far-left-wing partisan.

Didn't know who it was. I learned about a remarkable woman today. Thank you Derec.

 

[Derec]

I wonder how many people railing against the doodle never heard of her until they googled her name

That's not the point. Imagine if google decided to honor some obscure KKK leader with a doodle. Do you think people would be ok with it if they had to "google his name" first?

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Didn't know who it was. I learned about a remarkable woman today. Thank you Derec.

What do you think is remarkable about her? Her support of terrorists and murderers like Osama Bin Laden or Che Guevara? Her hatred for America? Her support of black separatism?

 

[Deepak]

I'm generally opposed to the echo chamber effect of predictive analytics when it comes to search results, especially in regards to news and history. Nor do I get my moral center from Google.

If more people are aware of her and able to make their assessment of her based on the Google doodle then are we really worse off as a society? Perhaps we should stop honoring people like Hitler and Mao in our libraries.

In fact your linked article is the 6th search result, and the 3rd news story that's presented when I click on the doodle. What exactly do we have to be afraid of here? That people will immediately recognize the individual in the picture and adopt all of their morals, while simultaneously not looking at any of the results behind the doodle?

Manufactured outrage if you ask me.

 

[Derec]

If more people are aware of her and able to make their assessment of her based on the Google doodle then are we really worse off as a society? Perhaps we should stop honoring people like Hitler and Mao in our libraries.

But Google doodles do not just neutrally present things from history ...

In fact your linked article is the 6th search result, and the 3rd news story that's presented when I click on the doodle. What exactly do we have to be afraid of here? That people will immediately recognize the individual in the picture and adopt all of their morals, while simultaneously not looking at any of the results behind the doodle?

.. they honor people/things and present them as something positive. For example the doodle had the word "equality" in her doodle even though equality was not what she was all about.

This political bias, where far-left radicals are presented as something positive, is disturbing. You would not disagree with me if they chose to honor a KKK leader. So why do far-left radicals get a pass and a white-washing of their history?

P.S.: I hope whoever came up with this doodle gets fired.
P.P.S.: This comes right after left-wing bias of Facebook "news curators" came to light.

 

[untermensche]

She was a convert to Islam.

She praised bin Laden for something.

I understand the outrage.

 

[Deepak]

Who cares? No one presents anything neutrally. And no one is going to go against their moral center because Google put them in a doodle. And as I mentioned already - there is critical information right on page one of the search results.

And this is the diametrical opposite of filtering as in the Facebook example. Though I can understand why the outrage machine is up in arms about this - predigested value statements are easy and comforting.

Number Two: We want information… information… information

 

[laughing dog]

What do you think is remarkable about her? Her support of terrorists and murderers like Osama Bin Laden or Che Guevara? Her hatred for America? Her support of black separatism?

That her name can throw some people into hissy fits.

 

[bilby]

Wrongly called a "civil rights leader". More like "uncivil wrongs" leader.

Google commemorates a very controversial civil-rights figure, Yuri Kochiyama

In the final years of her life, Kochiyama also expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden. Kochiyama told a reporter with the Los Angeles Indymedia that she considered bin Laden a freedom fighter, akin to Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro.

How the hell does Google choose people to celebrate with their doodles? It's getting ridiculously far-left-wing partisan.

So you're upset about this because you feel that it maligns your heroes, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, and Fidel Castro, to be associated with the likes of Yuri Kochiyama and Osama bin Laden?

 

[Derec]

She was a convert to Islam.

I can understand Muslims being born into it but why would anybody convert to Islam. I mean, you have to give up alcohol and bacon. Just doesn't make any sense.

She praised bin Laden for something.

Specifically, his terrorist career and murdering 3000 people in 9/11 attacks.

I understand the outrage.

No you don't, but you should.

 

[bleubird]

Derec,Why do you care?Have you been harmed by any of the things you post about?Have you lost anything because of affirmative action?
Why do you care?

 

[untermensche]

Specifically, his terrorist career and murdering 3000 people in 9/11 attacks.

Do you have the direct quote or does that matter to you Senator McCarthy?

 

[scombrid]

Derec,Why do you care?Have you been harmed by any of the things you post about?Have you lost anything because of affirmative action?
Why do you care?

I'm going to guess that in this case some talk radio host or website like Breitbart told him to be outraged about this Google outrage.

 

[Ford]

Derec,Why do you care?Have you been harmed by any of the things you post about?Have you lost anything because of affirmative action?
Why do you care?

Some people can't get through the day without being angry about something. Some days it is false rape claims, some days black lives matter, and apparently the third Thursday of every month is "look something up on Google and get worked into a tizzy" day.

 

[bleubird]

I care about the Stuff on the barbie.My bob are well known.