Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

[Low Key]

Do you think on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Americans will get pissed if Google doesn't have an image up for it?
No. They won't. If they put up that image, it'd be regarded as tasteless. But as long as it's men in uniform dying, it's ok.

Personally, I find it more offensive that the Americans have leapt on this and screamed 'Anti-American'.
To be honest, I think it's just as anti-British, anti-Canadian, anti-anybody else, and even anti-German. Sure, the Nazis were the 'bad guys', but hell, they're still people. But if you so much as sypmathise with them or their families, you're a heretic and must burn in hell.

Yup. That's reasonable.

Is it possible for Americans to be humble, and not demand years of praise for single feats?

Dude, the only people screaming about this are extreme right wingers who make up maybe 5% of our population. The only reason why this particular thread keeps continuing is because the international community feels the need to bash America as a whole, kinda like what you are doing.

And FYI, I am a conservative and I think this whole thing is boarderline retarded. Google can do what they want.

Extreme right wingers? THIS qualifies as extreme right wingers?

Wow...you make the BNP look like the Third Reich.

Nah, that's only part of their mantra. I'm guessing the guy who said Google is anti-American was taking the day off from gay bashing and puppy killing. It's easy to spot an extreme right winger. Religion is their main talking point, and they base everything they do on the word of the Lord, from sexuality, to abortion, to genocide. They are the kind of people who belittle terrorists because they are doing it for Allah, yet have no problem with The Crusades because the English were trying to "liberate" Jerusalem.

 

[Kogarian]

*Insert half arsed joke about Americans being late for every war*

*Responds with lazy, unthought-out mother joke*

 

[DasHunterman]

I must say, as an American, that these "journalists" are absolutly full of crap. Besides, like it has been said many times on this fourm, the Normandy Landings were a joint assault involving many Allied countries and not just the US.

On another topic: Wanna know who I think deserve more props than they get? The Maquis Resistance. Here are ordinary French citizens (Mostly) and they risked and sometimes lost their lives performing acts of sabotage against the Nazi overlords and their Vichy lapdogs so that one day France would be free. THAT took both a deep love of their country and massive brass balls.

Cheers, Maquis.

 

[Thyunda]

Do you think on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Americans will get pissed if Google doesn't have an image up for it?
No. They won't. If they put up that image, it'd be regarded as tasteless. But as long as it's men in uniform dying, it's ok.

Personally, I find it more offensive that the Americans have leapt on this and screamed 'Anti-American'.
To be honest, I think it's just as anti-British, anti-Canadian, anti-anybody else, and even anti-German. Sure, the Nazis were the 'bad guys', but hell, they're still people. But if you so much as sypmathise with them or their families, you're a heretic and must burn in hell.

Yup. That's reasonable.

Is it possible for Americans to be humble, and not demand years of praise for single feats?

Dude, the only people screaming about this are extreme right wingers who make up maybe 5% of our population. The only reason why this particular thread keeps continuing is because the international community feels the need to bash America as a whole, kinda like what you are doing.

And FYI, I am a conservative and I think this whole thing is boarderline retarded. Google can do what they want.

Extreme right wingers? THIS qualifies as extreme right wingers?

Wow...you make the BNP look like the Third Reich.

Nah, that's only part of their mantra. I'm guessing the guy who said Google is anti-American was taking the day off from gay bashing and puppy killing. It's easy to spot an extreme right winger. Religion is their main talking point, and they base everything they do on the word of the Lord, from sexuality, to abortion, to genocide. They are the kind of people who belittle terrorists because they are doing it for Allah, yet have no problem with The Crusades because the English were trying to "liberate" Jerusalem.

I'm an atheist. And I'm prejudiced against all religion. If anybody does anything in the name of the Lord, I have a desire to hit them with various objects of varying size.

 

[In Limbo]

A war that divided the world < A game that transcends cultural divisions.

As iGoogle Quote Of The Day says (poignantly) today:

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell

Is that quote supposed to tie in with WW2, because nothing about WW2 was trivial. It wasn't a war fought JUST 'CUZ.

Not at all, WWII was serious business. What that quote targets is the sentiment tied up in this Google debate. WWII wasn't trivial, but remembering the war, rather than what it was trying to achieve - peace, and an end to racial persecution - is. Patriotism is great when there's an unambiguously evil enemy to be fought (that can be beaten), but the West hasn't had one of those in over half a century. Patriotism is 'us and them', when really we need to be thinking 'us and us', because we can't afford to find the enemies we can beat, and can't afford to beat the enemies we can find. Plus, apart from a few physical discrepancies and some weird cultural things that date back hundreds or thousands of years, we're all pretty much the same.

 

[Low Key]

...but the West hasn't had one of those in over half a century.

Did you forget about Desert Storm?

 

[eelel]

Make's me really sad to be an American.

me to

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

See, this is the kind of stupidity where the correct response is just to say "fuck you, morons" and ignore them.

 

[Kinguendo]

The phrase "If you don't like my country, get out", makes sense. If you don't like someplace, don't fucking be there. For both common sense and the national defense. I wouldn't want people who didn't like my house in my house. They might break some thing or something of that class.

Hold on here, I'm from Australia and there are sure as hell some things I don't like about my country, and I'm well within my rights to work to change these things, I don't know how things are done in America as I don't know much about your laws other then what you see on TV shows, but it was my understanding that you had those same rights as well.

And what if nobody else likes your changes? What if the vast majority don't want your changes? They're well within their right to tell you to get the fuck out.


For the record, I was referring to people disliking the country itself, not the way we drive on the road or how we classify our videogames. It's the radio station arguement; if you don't like it, change the channel, don't call in and ***** about what you don't like when it's clearly popular with the majority of it's listeners.

And if the problems in your country really matter to you, you'd be spending your time making efforts to change them, not fuck about on a pointless fucking internet forum.

Actually, I am pretty sure that people from a democratic country arent allowed to tell other people from the same country to get out... in Americas case, all the Republicans would be floating on a raft made of guns right now... Britains case is a little more complex, shame, I would really like to know who would oust who.

Considering the Republicans are the ones with guns, the democrats would be in a raft.

Oh dont be silly, the Democrats are in office.

And the republicans have guns. Lots of them.

I told you not to be silly, yet you persist with the SAME point. Anyway, like I said. Democrats are in control of your country, no amount of pick-up tuvks is going to stand against you armed-forces and secret service.

 

[SprodeMaster]

Oh exploitable!
Google isn't JUST American anymore, it's an international name and frankly, no one wants to hear about WW2 anymore. Also, how would the logo even commemorate that?
(Sorry if this has been already stated but it's my opinion)

 

[Low Key]

I told you not to be silly, yet you persist with the SAME point. Anyway, like I said. Democrats are in control of your country, no amount of pick-up tuvks is going to stand against you armed-forces and secret service.

Fortunately, that will only last for 4 years.

 

[SendMeNoodz84]

What would they do to commemorate D-Day? A very bloody beach full of dead, allied soldiers full of shrapnel with bombed out fish lying at their feet. Maybe a horrified soldier crying, praying to god that he makes it out alive. Doesn't sound to pretty, does it? :/

 

[Low Key]

To all of you wondering what Google would have done in rememberance of D-Day would be to post a black ribbon on their homepage. I think some people here have overactive imaginations.

Spoiler: Black Ribbon

It commemorates soldiers who are MIA/KIA.

 

[Kinguendo]

I told you not to be silly, yet you persist with the SAME point. Anyway, like I said. Democrats are in control of your country, no amount of pick-up tuvks is going to stand against you armed-forces and secret service.

Fortunately, that will only last for 4 years.

Yeah, thats generally the way the whole "term" thing works... and then he will be voted in again, yay.

 

[Kinguendo]

First, and most importantly, anything that is labled as Conservative, or right wing, or Republican, can be discounted as a ridiculous opinion from the stupid loud people who would coat the USA in shit if they thought they could get a few misinformed want-to-be-patriots to join their cause, which is to coat the USA in shit so a few more misinformed want-to-be-patriots... It's a terrible cycle which makes the rest of the world hate us.

I thought liberals were supposed to be accepting of others. I guess not.

Second, those of us that aren't involved in the aforementioned cycle, are the real patriots, on here defending google's right not to show a bloody re-creation of D-day on their front page. We know the internet doesn't belong to the USA

Ironically, the internet was invented by the US military in the 1960s and actually owned by an American company until the early 1990s...

Thanks for playing though.

Hey, you just proved the guy you quoted right. You are kind indeed, although I get the sense that isnt what you wanted to do. See where you did it... "until the early 1990s" <right here, see?

 

[ckam]

I was going to criticize Google, but that I know the entire story I'm actually going to support Google.

 

[hcig]

Why didn't they create a mock of Tetris: WWII Edition?

*in guiness paper guy voice*

"BRILLIANT!"

 

[Low Key]

First, and most importantly, anything that is labled as Conservative, or right wing, or Republican, can be discounted as a ridiculous opinion from the stupid loud people who would coat the USA in shit if they thought they could get a few misinformed want-to-be-patriots to join their cause, which is to coat the USA in shit so a few more misinformed want-to-be-patriots... It's a terrible cycle which makes the rest of the world hate us.

I thought liberals were supposed to be accepting of others. I guess not.

Second, those of us that aren't involved in the aforementioned cycle, are the real patriots, on here defending google's right not to show a bloody re-creation of D-day on their front page. We know the internet doesn't belong to the USA

Ironically, the internet was invented by the US military in the 1960s and actually owned by an American company until the early 1990s...

Thanks for playing though.

Hey, you just proved the guy you quoted right. You are kind indeed, although I get the sense that isnt what you wanted to do. See where you did it... "until the early 1990s" <right here, see?

I've posted throughout pages and pages of this mess to the point where those who wanted to argue and myself have come to a truce. I'm not about to get into it with you too. The point I was trying to make was, without America, the world wouldn't have the internet (at least not when it did). And since it was that persons first and only post, I am assuming it was a troll.

That's where I'm leaving it. If you want to argue with yourself, be my guest.

 

[Treblaine]

by adding an image on its homepage depicting... the computer game Tetris," CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST Warner Todd Huston wrote on

Case fukken CLOSED!

How the hell can there be 15 pages of debate over this? This is the opinion of a lone right-wing non-political entity who is for want of a better word just... trolling. He knows damn well that this is a non-story considering how NO OTHER COMPANY has made any special announcement of commendation for this anniversary. Why focus on google... for the lulz, that's why.

Stop feeding the trolls, and conservative columnists are the worst kind of trolls. Almost as bad if not worse than liberal commentators.

 

[hcig]

First, and most importantly, anything that is labled as Conservative, or right wing, or Republican, can be discounted as a ridiculous opinion from the stupid loud people who would coat the USA in shit if they thought they could get a few misinformed want-to-be-patriots to join their cause, which is to coat the USA in shit so a few more misinformed want-to-be-patriots... It's a terrible cycle which makes the rest of the world hate us.

I thought liberals were supposed to be accepting of others. I guess not.


Thanks for playing though.

been saying for years, "liberals" are insanely closed minded, turns out, theres actually a pair of studies done that found that conservatives are more likely to accept and analyze opposing views

funny how that works.