Why is cesar chavez on google not easter

Some conservative celebrities and other Twitter users went online to express their anger that the search giant didn't acknowledge the Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Cool for Google to not celebrate Easter but really?!!? Go to google. I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool's Day prank The right-thinking chaps on Twitter tell me so. That stunning news was heard across the internet, or at least to her 27 followers — which is still more than double the number that attended the last supper.

She was not alone though. Keith R Kingsolver tweeted: "Wow. Congrats Google, youve managed to alienate all Christians in America today: instead of celebrating Christ, they celebrate Cesar Chavez. The conservative site Twitchy initially confused the matter by claiming Google was honouring Hugo Chavez, the recently deceased Venezuelan leader.

Correcting the matter did not dull the outrage for many on Twitter. A handful of prior Google devotees announced their conversion, with Bing being the new online deity to be worshipped. Easter is one of those holidays that some people read: religious Christians take more seriously than others, and it's not hard to see how they might take Google's slight seriously.

It also didn't help that dozens of people thought that Google was paying tribute to Hugo Chavez , the recently deceased long-time dictator of Venezuela, rather than Cesar Chavez, the civil rights activist.

This is a surprise because Google tends to avoid strong religious themes on the doodles. In fact, the company hasn't had an Easter-themed doodle since Last year, for instance, it saluted the th birthday of Robert Bunsen of Bunsen burner fame.

Twitchy, a site owned by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, curated a number of tweets from people who felt insulted by the doodle. While two billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday on this 31st day of March, Google is using its famous "Doodle" search logo art to mark the birth of left-wing labor leader Cesar Chavez," reads a post on the site.

But First Things, a conservative-leaning Catholic journal , argued that it is fitting to remember Chavez on Easter Sunday.

So many of his actions, the site said, were driven by his religious convictions. Collective bargaining, just wages, shorter workdays: for Chavez none of these made sense outside the fact of his risen Lord.