Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Honestly, what were they going to do? Have a blood splattered logo? Try and fit the Allied flags in there somewhere? Try and create a logo depicting an image of the beaches of Normandy? More people use Google outside of the USA than inside it I'm sure, so shoving Pro-American stuff on there and in essence promoting their patriotism kinda excludes others throughout the world, namely the other countries that won and lost the war.
I'm glad they put that Tetris sign up!
I'm glad they put that Tetris sign up!
On June 6th, 1944, thousands of brave men of many creeds, backgrounds and nationalities died so that Google would have the freedom to make their logo look like anything they damn well please.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Just as well they went with the Tetris logo. I think the D-Day landings would've been a lot harder to make into a 'Google' design.
Ahhh, conservative extremism. Ya gotta love it!
Douchebags.
I'd rather remember a great video game than a bloody war that has been over for nearly sixty years if not more. Don't get me wrong, WW2 had to be fought, but we as Americans need to get past our shining moment of "glory" and try to do good things now. Basically, until we quit listening to idiots like Rush-to-War Limbaugh, Dickhead Cheney and Bill O'Rly?, news stories like this will be coming out of the States. Just ignore them and remember that there are good people over here.
Douchebags.
I'd rather remember a great video game than a bloody war that has been over for nearly sixty years if not more. Don't get me wrong, WW2 had to be fought, but we as Americans need to get past our shining moment of "glory" and try to do good things now. Basically, until we quit listening to idiots like Rush-to-War Limbaugh, Dickhead Cheney and Bill O'Rly?, news stories like this will be coming out of the States. Just ignore them and remember that there are good people over here.
I really don't understand why if something doesn't commemerate American holidays they are suddenly Anti-American. So what? Maybe Google should 'Commemmerate' the American achivement of dropping the A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki. That might shut them up.
Oh because remembering something that brings joy is very anti-American isn't it.
Why does everything have to turn into an anti-American thing if its not done the American way, or with America in mind. I accept American lives were taken, but if I remember my history correctly weren't they mainly British and Canadian?
Why does everything have to turn into an anti-American thing if its not done the American way, or with America in mind. I accept American lives were taken, but if I remember my history correctly weren't they mainly British and Canadian?
I find the idea entertaining. An international, basically contentless website is supposed to adhere to one, i repeat, 1 (one) nation's national remembrence and holidays. What next, add stars and stripes to the UN flag?
Besides... D-Day? Where loss of life was allies plenty - axis few? Celebrating the day seems like celebrating the strategical wisdom of the defenders.
Besides... D-Day? Where loss of life was allies plenty - axis few? Celebrating the day seems like celebrating the strategical wisdom of the defenders.
Might it have anything to do with the fact that 25 is a more celebrated number as far as anniversaries go than 65? Or the fact that Tetris is a thing of joy and happiness and amusing where as D-Day is part of a war and full of death and sadness? Or the fact that it's easier to make letters out of tetris pieces than of corpses and napalm covered beaches?
No, maybe they're right... bad google! shame on you!
No, maybe they're right... bad google! shame on you!
Google is a worldwide company, spanning all over the globe, so they don't want to get hated on by 3/4 of the world by putting up a America memorial image on their website when you live in Africa, or the U.K. (I'm American by the way). So, they celebrated something that wouldn't be offensive to other countries, so they chose Tetris. Also, Google is full of geeks who love video games, so it's expected that they do this. (I'm a geek, and I'm proud of it)