Google Honors Cesar Chavez, Right Wing Goes Into Massive Freakout Mode

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It wouldn’t be Easter without a massive right wing freakout, and today’s rage meme is directed at Google because their front page “Doodle” is currently celebrating the birthday of Latino American civil rights hero Cesar Chavez.

As someone who organized immigrant farm workers, Chavez is a natural target for the right wing. He neatly encapsulates everything they hate: poor people, immigrants, and organized labor.

breitbart.com enfant terrible Ben Shapiro leads the wingnut Christian charge, even though he’s not even a Christian: HAPPY EASTER: GOOGLE CELEBRATES CESAR CHAVEZ’S BIRTH!!!

Currently with more than 700 comments just boiling with anger and racism.

At Michelle Malkin’s rage dispenser twitchy.com, they’re collecting outraged tweets from dumb wingnuts obsessed with being victimized, many of whom don’t understand the difference between Cesar Chavez and deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez: Google Celebrates Easter With … Cesar Chavez Birthday Tribute.

Currently with more than 800 comments boiling with anger and racism and conspiracy theories.

One reason the wingnut masses are confusing Cesar with Hugo: twitchy.com’s original post did it too: 15 People Who Think Google Is Honoring Hugo Chávez.

Another holiday, another huge self-beclowning by the right wing blogs and media.

This dumb fake outrage is also at The Daily Caller: Google Honors Cesar Chavez on Easter | the Daily Caller.

And the Dumbest Man on the Internet has to get in on this rage meme too: Google Gets Religion - Honors Cesar Chavez on Easter | the Gateway Pundit.

And of course, Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds is also in there, stoking the fury: Instapundit » Blog Archive » GOOGLE CELEBRATES EASTER IN THEIR OWN SPECIAL WAY: “While two billion Christians around the worl…

I give you: the world’s biggest nonsensical echo chamber of right wing victimhood.

Happy Easter, everyone!

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59 comments
1 Randall Gross  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:00:01am

War on Easter priming courtesy Fox News.

2 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:01:40am

Exactly. It would have been his 86th birthday today.

How awful celebrating a famous person’s birthday.

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3 dragonath  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:02:52am

This is the vaunted GOP outreach, you know

4 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:03:31am

Let’s see; brown man, standing up for poor people… what could be further from the message of Easter?

5 Beauzeaux  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:03:48am

Why aren’t these devout Christians in church?

6 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:06:46am

Cesar Chavez was a devout Catholic whose faith informed his work. He worked his life to make life better for the most working poor of the working poor, migrant laborers.

How is he not a fit man to honor on Easter?

7 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:07:47am

Happy Cesar Chavez’s birthday!

In a week and a half, it will be Dolores Huerta’s birthday. Maybe it will fall on Easter some other year. She’s still alive, that alone might be cause for right wing freakout.

8 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:08:14am
Homer: Who are you?
Dream Cesar Chavez: I am the spirit of Cesar Chavez.
Homer: Then why do you look like Cesar Romero?
Dream Cesar Chavez: Because you don’t know what Cesar Chavez looks like.
9 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:08:29am

re: #6 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

They want to see their version of a Savior, not an immigrant.

10 Blue Point  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:10:09am

Espousing the teachings of Jesus once again; “Poor me.” Ignorant and bigoted never looked good and it sure doesn’t look very good coming from so called “Christians.” Happy Easter for all the right reasons weather you are of faith or not. Love one another and care.

11 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:10:24am

re: #8 goddamnedfrank

Homer: Who are you?
Dream Cesar Chavez: I am the spirit of Cesar Chavez.
Homer: Then why do you look like Cesar Romero?
Dream Cesar Chavez: Because you don’t know what Cesar Chávez looks like.

Maybe that’s the root of this:

12 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:13:21am
13 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:13:28am

A drive By Happy Easter all!!
Ham is almost done
All the rest of the fixin’s and trimmings are completed
Son is home from college to enjoy the day with us

What could possibly make this day bad?

Oh ,, yeah,,, I HAVE TO BE AT FRAKIIN WORK IN 3 1/2 HOURS!!!!

14 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:16:33am
15 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:18:35am

re: #14 jaunte

Image: twitchy-acceptable-google-easter.jpg

Can you do a basket of eggs with portraits of Cesar Chavez on them? Maybe some UFW logos?

16 Robert O.  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:27:39am

I bet most right-wingers saw the name Chavez, and thought Google was honoring Venezuela’s dead former President.

17 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:30:19am

OMG! Hatchlings!

18 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:32:34am

re: #17 wrenchwench

Why does Michelle Malkin have to endure this
tortoises-all-the-way-down mockery on this, of all days!!!

19 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:37:15am
20 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:37:28am

re: #15 wrenchwench

I tried the basket of eggs, but I just can’t make it into a dignified image.

21 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:39:13am
22 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:39:28am

re: #20 jaunte

I tried the basket of eggs, but I just can’t make it into a dignified image.

Thanks for the effort.

23 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:42:30am
24 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:43:02am
25 kirkspencer  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:44:23am

So since nobody’s caught it, March 31 is a state holiday for California, Texas, and Colorado. The day is Cesar Chavez day.

So this freakout going on? It’s because Google chose to highlight another holiday.

26 lawhawk  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:55:15am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area on this חול המועד‎. Yeah, that’s right. It’s the middle of Passover, and it’s got its own special days and rules.

Oh, and Happy Easter to everyone who is of the Christian faith. I hope this spiritual time of renewal brings you closer to your faith, and that you understand the lessons G-d sought to impart on humanity.

It does seem that a few folks don’t get the lessons, or the humility of it all. Such the pity.

Now, Google, a company has decided to run a doodle for Cesar Chavez rather than Easter. What exactly were they hoping to do? Show rabbits and eggs? Or, that this is proof of a war on Christians? Really? That’s the proof? That a single company opted to honor someone else on Easter?

Would it have been nice had Google done something else? Perhaps, but Google has only apparently done an Easter themed doodle once before. In 2000.

27 Bulworth  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:56:24am

Where’s the coverage!!

28 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:56:45am

All these wingnuts ranting about “GOOGLE HAS OFFENDED TWO BILLION CHRISTIANS!” seem to have no awareness of how much they sound like radical Islamists.

29 Gus  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:57:58am
30 Bulworth  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 11:58:34am

re: #16 Robert O.

why is Google honoring Cuban terrorist murderer Ernesto “Che” Chavez?!!

31 Gus  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:01:04pm
32 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:02:15pm
33 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:02:43pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

All these wingnuts ranting about “GOOGLE HAS OFFENDED TWO BILLION CHRISTIANS!” seem to have no awareness of how much they sound like radical Islamists.

It’s an offensive cartoon!!!11!

34 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:02:45pm

Huevos de UFW:

Image: UFWhuevos.jpg

35 jaunte  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:08:24pm
36 lawhawk  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:10:09pm
37 Gus  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:12:08pm

re: #36 lawhawk

Yes. I am devastated. Think I’ll look for a snack in the kitchen.

38 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:13:04pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

The Rage Wing exploits the Obama children, then accuse the Obamas of exploiting their own children.

From the minds of the same idiots who rant about how a Muslim Communist affirmative action president is destroying this country with nefarious sinister plots of evil communo-Muslim evilness.

39 Kronocide  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:14:58pm

Gus could start the first war caused by Photoshop.

40 Lidane  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:19:28pm
41 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:20:23pm

It is very doubtful that Google did this DELIBERATELY ON PURPOSE!!!11!!! Chavez was on their calendar for March 31. The date of Easter varies from year to year.

Have they ever done a doodle in honor of a Jewish holiday?

Yeah, ONCE for Rosh Hashanah in 2006.

They have never done a Hanukkah doodle, or a Ramadan or an Eid doodle.

42 Gus  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:20:41pm

re: #40 Lidane

Derp.

43 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:21:23pm

DERP

44 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:21:54pm

DERP

45 Skip Intro  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:22:16pm

Are these people ever not angry? Ever?

46 jamesfirecat  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:25:40pm

re: #39 Kronocide

Gus could start the first war caused by Photoshop.

You provide the photoshop I’ll provide the war!

47 Lidane  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:30:22pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Are these people ever not angry? Ever?

LOL no. There’s a black man in the White House, remember?

48 Kragar  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:31:17pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Are these people ever not angry? Ever?

They got the same surgery as a Khorne Berzerker, rewiring the parts of their brain which govern anger and connecting them to the pleasure centers.

49 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:32:33pm

Liz Winstead knows how to tweet on Easter:

50 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:41:00pm

My son is making some kind of sweet & sour sauce for the brisket. I just made the handmade Passover egg noodles. My son-in-law is making the almond-crusted chicken breasts. My daughter is grating potatoes for potato kugel. I decided to get out of their way. :)

51 AlexRogan  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:45:12pm

re: #9 PhillyPretzel

They want to see their version of a Savior, not an immigrant.

They want to see white, longhaired, blue-eyed Free-Market Warrior Jesus, a chimera that IMO never existed.

52 AlexRogan  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:48:48pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

All these wingnuts ranting about “GOOGLE HAS OFFENDED TWO BILLION CHRISTIANS!” seem to have no awareness of how much they sound like radical Islamists.

Fischer was offended.

53 Lidane  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:50:54pm
54 Kragar  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 12:59:01pm

re: #53 Lidane

They should boycott google.
/

55 hinterlandg  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 4:26:16pm

These are the same clowns who want Latinos to vote Republican in the next election. They can always stop using Google until Bing pisses them off.

56 wrenchwench  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 4:42:03pm

re: #55 hinterlandg

Welcome, hatchling.

57 majii  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 4:56:30pm

How dare People of Color, LGBTQ, and other Americans be honored for anything, even something as simple as his/her birthday! Don’t you know that America is a white nation? This kind of shit makes me sick to my stomach. An American is an American, no exceptions, but these tools make all kinds of exceptions and call them good. I can only guess this is what they really mean when they shout, “America is an exceptional nation!!” The 100% truth is that it’s not liberals/democrats/progressives or the president that are/is the cause of the country’s divisiveness at this point in time. It is tools like Malkin, Hoft, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, republicans in Congress, Fox News, and others on the right that are the sources of divisiveness. I’m a retired U.S. History teacher, and their ignorance and pride in it chafes my ass. Cesar Chavez and Hugo Chavez are NOT the same people. These dodos are protesting the accomplishments of a fellow American! I want them to keep doing this shit. I want them to let it all hang out. They’re doing the same thing in 2013 that they’ve done since Obama took office, and they’re making the same mistake today that they made in the past—-they think they can do this shit and change tactics right before an election and have people they have constantly pissed all over vote for them. It continues to amaze me how stupid they are. After the next national election, the same tools making these racist comments now will be among the first of those asking why a majority of POC and LGBTQ Americans continue to reject their politicians. Neither introspection nor recognizing the relationship between cause and effect are strong qualities they possess.

58 Patricia Kayden  Sun, Mar 31, 2013 5:03:28pm

re: #4 jaunte

Let’s see; brown man, standing up for poor people… what could be further from the message of Easter?

Yes, honoring a Mexican-American is so nightmarish. Nice Latino vote outreach.

59 [deleted]  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 11:26:37am

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