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Is Google trying to be Politically Correct ?

Is Google trying to be politically correct?

  • Yes, it's obvious they want to avoid a specifically Christmas image

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • It could be. I didn't see any Hanukkah ones either this year, come to think of it...

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • I doubt it, why would they do that?

    Votes: 5 26.3%

  • Some Athiest probably complained and Google caved.

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Total voters
    19
Google is a private business. Why not allow them to do what they want with their site without having to accomodate anyone's sensitivity?

I mean seriously.....if they want to put a nativity scene...more power to them. If they want to put a Santa/Reindeer...great. If they choose to put neither or acknowledge Christmas in their logo...that's fine too. No buisiness you HAVE to do any of the above.
 
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disneydude said:
Google is a private business. Why not allow them to do what they want with their site without having to accomodate anyone's sensitivity?
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Ha ha, sweet irony from the hypersensitive left! :rofl

They can most certainly conduct their business as they see fit. And if I don't like the way they do so, I am free to vote with my feet. :2wave:
 
MyOwnDrum said:
Ha ha, sweet irony from the hypersensitive left! :rofl

They can most certainly conduct their business as they see fit. And if I don't like the way they do so, I am free to vote with my fit. :2wave:
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Absolutely. But there's nothing ironic about that. When it comes to private business that has always been my position. If they were a governmental agency, that would be a completely different thing.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
I used to enjoy their various images. They seemed to honor special holidays from various faiths.

This image is pathetic. I might change my search engine and drop them a note.
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I agree. It's bland and unnecessarily PC.

They should have done Hanukkah on the 11th, Winter Solstice on 21st and Christmas on the 25th and Kwanzaa on the 26th. No need to be boring with a generic celebration image.
 
disneydude said:
Google is a private business. Why not allow them to do what they want with their site without having to accomodate anyone's sensitivity?

I mean seriously.....if they want to put a nativity scene...more power to them. If they want to put a Santa/Reindeer...great. If they choose to put neither or acknowledge Christmas in their logo...that's fine too. No buisiness you HAVE to do any of the above.
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Google is a public company. :)

Google Inc. - Google Finance
 
Hatuey said:
Only Google doesn't just cater to Americans. It caters to the 1-2 billion internet users around the globe. Money takes the driver's seat over "AMERICA! **** YEAH!".
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That's irrelevant. They are an American company founded by Americans so a simple logo celebrating an American federal holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus is entirely apt.

And Google's past behavior does not coincide with your line of thinking.

Last time I checked Gandi is Indian. Google has used a logo to celebrate Gandi's birthday:
gandhi-logo.png
Reasonable people don't view that as a sign that Google only caters to Indians.
 
Gibberish said:
I agree. It's bland and unnecessarily PC.

They should have done Hanukkah on the 11th, Winter Solstice on 21st and Christmas on the 25th and Kwanzaa on the 26th. No need to be boring with a generic celebration image.
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That would have been a neat way to go.

It looks like the logo this year was built up over several days, though, I guess to look like Christmas cards piling up. The schedule wouldn't have been able to accommodate Yule, and the Kwanzaa logo would look odd, design-wise, after spending nearly a week building the last one as a progressive piece.

Now, cards each day on the stack specific to one holiday then the next, would have been more fun.

This is just a dull, failed design. I think this is one of those things that seemed better before it was committed to the screen.
 
I really do not give a crap what a search engine does in reguards to the Holidays. I mean why care? Google does not give a personal **** about me so why would I care?
 
MyOwnDrum said:
They used to have images on Hanukkah, Ramadan, Chinese New Years, etc. I didn't mind Jewish or Muslim images. Now it seems they've decided to play it totally safe and avoid anything.

I find that sad. Are people that intolerant that they can't handle seeing images from various Holidays of various peoples?
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No offense but I find it sad that you are worried about this. I mean it is just Google.:(
 
damned if they do damned if they don't.
 
Kandahar said:
And they connected by putting pictures of things like snowmen and Christmas trees on their image. The only people who are offended by it are the crazies who demand that everyone else not only worship Jesus, but wear their faith on their sleeve as well.

Somehow I can't imagine Jesus getting pissed off that people wish each other Happy Holidays, or use pictures of snowmen and Christmas trees instead of him.
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they just used the commercial aspect of christmas, at the very least they could've had santa or something, what exactly does a space ship and a peace sign have to do with christmas.
 
Here's a blog piece that addresses this. According to one respondent 'Happy Holidays' is strictly an American phrase used to avoid saying the 'C' word.
Google doodles a "Happy Holidays" - Pocket-lint

I think I'm going to boycott Google. They honor every other stupid day on their site, but want to pretend that Christmas doesn't exist?

I think it's time that people who are bothered by this make our voices heard, just like the whiners who are exorcising Christmas from our cultural landscape have done.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
According to one respondent 'Happy Holidays' is strictly an American phrase used to avoid saying the 'C' word.
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Actually, he claims that it's a tool of US imperialism:

It even says "Happy Holidays" on google.co.uk - no one says that in the UK. If you want to avoid the religion it's "Season's Greetings" or similar - NEVER "Happy Holidays " which is exclusively American. More cultural imperialism from Google and it's onward rush to turn everywhere else into the good ol' US of A.
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I like it when Google does this ..it sets some people off and I like watching the fireworks :mrgreen:
 
Personally, I don't care but I'm also not surprised. I logged on yesterday and noticed they had the varying different images that coincided nothing with any holiday season - but I suppose the peace sign could be interpreted as "peace toward men", but knowing google, I highly doubt it. I think they were tryng to be vague and non-comittal in their "holiday" wish.



They have been more and more apt to be PC these days. Their reasoning is their own, but people do take note of it.
 
they are just keeping up with the times---God has been overthrown it seems.---Not with me of course. May God bless and keep you, one and all. :mrgreen:
 
Like any successful Corporation, they listen to only the bottom line---and the bottom line is good.
 
The vote changed to "They caved in to the atheist complaint."
Goggle is very annoying, they try so hard to be so good....being politically correct is flat-out wrong,IMO.
 
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Skateguy said:
Like any successful Corporation, they listen to only the bottom line---and the bottom line is good.
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Yeah:spin:
That was the American business approach for many years....for so long that they forgot how they got there.

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I'm going to change search engines. Recommendations?
 
MyOwnDrum said:
I'm going to change search engines. Recommendations?
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MS's Bing ????
I'd stick with Google, as stupid as it is.
The problem is in the "findings" - which, all too often, is a pile of trash.
 
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