Google Doodle taken down

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Imagine the level of wokeness of someone finding this offensive. Can someone please help me understand why springbok (national animal) with a background in colours of the national flag is considered offensive? Tweet from Google:

@googleafrica: We understand our #GoogleDoodle for South Africa’s Freedom Day offended some people. We should have done better and are deeply sorry. We've taken down the Doodle. Happy Freedom Day!

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It's not there anymore, but not sure what evidence there is that it was taken down because someone was offended.
 
I wonder if people are upset because of the Springbok or because of the reddish/orange colour on top and blue at the bottom, like the old SA flag.
 
It's a bit of a lazy doodle though from them though, don't particularly like it from a design point of view - the last two years were nicer IMO:

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saor said:
Google can also go suck it for being so apologetic.

No you morons - this is exactly the point: People will moan about everything. How you can run the internet and still not understand this is beyond me.
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Google is whipped, no backbone.

Not sure what they are affraid of, are the people whom complained going to stop using google? :ROFL:

Unlikely.
 
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