Every holiday, and sometimes on days that aren’t holidays, Google engages its clever art department to create their now famous Google Doodles. Google Doodles are everything from animated pictures to short animated GIFs and videos. On Veteran’s Day, The Google Doodle showed, naturally, veterans. Here it is:
What do you notice about this picture? If you’re like most people, probably not much except that it’s respectful of our veterans and it shows the diversity of both the military and of the American people - but that’s the problem.
Racists took to Twitter complaining that the picture wasn’t representative of the military because it *gasp* showed people of color.
Google is deceitful, this is what the vast majority of veterans who died for your freedom looked like. #VeteransDay pic.twitter.com/xf6Uhlg77r
— young ned stark (@drewmistak) November 11, 2015
#GoogleDoodle #VeteransDay White men make up 80% of veterans but only 14% of Google’s Veteran’s Day doodle. pic.twitter.com/joUMS6qdav
— Jo⭐ (@timeforgravy) November 11, 2015
Google celebrates #veteransday from an alternate reality.. pic.twitter.com/Ju0E5f37oG
— Todd Sweeney (@SomeKindaBoogin) November 11, 2015
Is it me or is #google tryingtoo hard to be inclusive in their #VeteransDay graphic? pic.twitter.com/FVjUxk7hO2
— Sam Matthews (@smatthews1999) November 11, 2015
FACT: @google ‘s #VeteransDay doodle is not a real representation of U.S. military personnel https://t.co/KBey0E1z9g pic.twitter.com/jhVrF0wjhN
— kataisa (@kataisa) November 12, 2015
So glad that millions of white men gave their lives so that #GoogleDoodle could blackwash history and forget them. pic.twitter.com/NHSf4NHM49
— Hypes (@OvermanHyperion) November 12, 2015
of 7 veterans, only one white. Google doesnt even try to hide their antiwhite animus #tcot #GoogleDoodle pic.twitter.com/XHGXndMC5c
— Richard Freese (@RickFrees) November 11, 2015
#Google does a disservice to #Veterans with #GoogleDoodle. 1 #White male in the back row. Check your facts. @Google https://t.co/h31j59H6n7
— DemRascals (@DemRascals) November 11, 2015
Okay, the majority of veterans are white, but who cares? White people are overrepresented in almost every segment of society. White people dominate “liberal” Hollywood. People of color are underrepresented in Congress and in State Houses and in boardrooms and we’re supposed to just accept that or be accused of being politically correct, but hey, if a silly little cartoon overrepresents people of color, that’s injustice. Besides, plenty of people of color have died for our country. Patriotism has no skin color.
Featured image via Twitter screen capture.
