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[–]selenagomezhasananus 27 points28 points29 points  (7 children)
Excited to hear the justification for this. I mean, this person was a self admitted admirer of one of the biggest terrorists the world has ever known. Also a fan of a leader who killed more people than Hitler, literally.
What is Google thinking? Anyone have any idea?
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[–]openforum2011 14 points15 points16 points  (2 children)
Also a fan of a leader who killed more people than Hitler, literally.
Was confused because I thought you meant Osama, but then I googled her and realized it's Mao Zedong. :|
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[–]selenagomezhasananus 16 points17 points18 points  (0 children)
Yeah, pretty sad when Bin Laden is not the worst person on your list of heroes.
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[–]mason240 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
This is the 50th anniversary of the Great Leap Forward / Cultural Revolution. Even the Chinese government has said they won't commemorate it.
Someone at Google is trolling hard.
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[–]ispeelmydrink 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
I think they were hoping people would see her portrait next to "EQUALITY" and not look into it any further. Particularly the part where she adamantly supported people who murdered millions.
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[–]zeedub comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points  (2 children)
There are many sides to every story. I don't agree with her views, I also don't see this as support, but as showing a different point of view.
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[–]Baramos_ 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
I just feel like there are many activists who are anti-U.S. foreign policy while also not simultaneously speaking words of support for mass-murdering terrorists.
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[–]Baramos_ 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
What's really stupid about choosing her is it's also Malcolm X's birthday. Who knew that they could choose someone more controversial than Malcolm X to celebrate?
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[–]JizzlyAdams 22 points23 points24 points  (5 children)
I lost a lot of respect for Google today.
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[–]Iitigator 14 points15 points16 points  (1 child)
I’m glad that you are curious why I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire. They had much in common. Besides being strong leaders who brought consciousness to their people, they all had severe dislike for the US government and those who held power in the US.
In a 2003 interview
Seriously what the fuck.
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[–]Baramos_ 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
Apparently she also spoke out in support of the Shining Path in Peru, who have "disappeared", executed, and tortured 30,000 people.
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[–]redditorium 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
Yes this is very disappointing. I hope they retract it.
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[–]reallyshadyguy 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
Just from her wiki:
She worked on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American activist sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner
uh
Kochiyama supported Yu Kikumura, an alleged member of the Japanese Red Army, who was arrested in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when he was found carrying a bomb in his luggage and subsequently convicted of planning to bomb a US Navy recruitment office in the Veteran's Administration building.
uhh
Kochiyama visited in prison Marilyn Buck, a feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brink's robbery and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing.
uhhh
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[–]kancolle_nigga 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
She sounds like a nut job tbh
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[–]ihb578hi 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
That's fucking pathetic. I usually don't like it when people white wash civil rights activism and shun out of hand anybody who used questionable methods or had some questionable views here and there, but this person is a gigantic piece of shit in more ways than she was a good person or important figure in social justice.
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[–]09112001[S] 13 points14 points15 points  (2 children)
All sorts of backlash, and it's still up. Funny how their Roald Dahl doodle was taken down and completely erased from their records as soon as a couple of people accused him of being anti-Israel.
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[–]TexasFST 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
I'm very pro-Israel, and Dahl was both anti-semitic and anti-Israel, but I don't think that was reason to remove him - his political views are certainly distinguishable from his legacy as an author, which is what he was being remembered for. They should have left him up. Kochiyama on the other hand is being remembered for her political views which are pretty horrific as other posters have pointed out, there's no justification in my mind for this doodle.
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[–]Xronize -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
MUH EQUALITY
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[–]mzw_mzw 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Have the mods commented on why they deleted multiple previous threads on this issue?
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[–]Haruhi_Fujioka comment score below threshold-9 points-8 points-7 points  (1 child)
I hate socialism and love America, but can we restrict politics to subreddits that are designed for politics?
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[–]09112001[S] 16 points17 points18 points  (0 children)
I don't see how a post extremely relevant to Google (this is the image they are putting out there for the public to see on their homepage), that happens to be about a controversial figure, is political? If anything, Google made it political by choosing to honor this person. I don't think acknowledging that Osama and Mao Zedong are terrible people is restricted by one's political views.
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