Google Doodle taken down

I am certain, those who have complained about the Springbok in the doodle are the same people who cause a divide within the public perception in regard to our national rugby team. During the Rugby World Cup, it was also only our own countrymen who sought out every opportunity to discredit the team. The Springbok, and the emblem, will always be associated with Apartheid.

It will be interesting to see whether the media wants to talk about this doodle...
 
thelostduke_zw said:
Quite interesting that you dont even consider why people might be offended. Can only mean they are idiots right?
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The way I see it is that someone chose to get offended by the picture of an animal... So yes...
 
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'We are deeply sorry.' Google yanks Freedom Day doodle with springbok
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  • Google created a special version of its logo for South Africa's Freedom Day 2020, as it has in years before.
  • But after about three hours it announced it had removed the Google Doodle which had "offended some people".
  • The logo featured the colours of South Africa's flag – and a prominent stylised springbok.

Google has removed a special version of its logo for South African users and apologised for posting it in the first place.

The search giant created a special Google Doodle for Freedom Day 2020, as it had in years before, and announced it at 09:00 South African time in a Twitter post – which was still available at the time of publication.

The image, Google said, "features the country's national animal, the emblematic springbok".

But by Monday afternoon the doodle was no longer displaying, with South African users to google.co.za instead being served the service's standard, unaltered logo.

The page explaining the significance of the special logo carried a quote by Nelson Mandela, Google's own partial archive shows.

" 'Wherever South Africans are across the globe, our hearts beat as one, as we renew our common loyalty to our country and our commitment to its future,' said then South African president Nelson Mandela on the first anniversary of South Africa Freedom Day," read the page, in part.

The page is no longer available.

Slightly after noon the Google in Africa Twitter account announced why the springbok doodle had been removed.

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

Earlier in the day, some on social media objected to the use of a springbok in the doodle:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1254555632180617217

https://twitter.com/x/status/1254722645473538048

https://twitter.com/x/status/1254640213168730113

One thought the logo looked too "apartheid-ish":

https://twitter.com/x/status/1254704718980489216
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As expected, also had a good woke element to this.
 
Afrikans uses animals in their clannames non cites a springbok.
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:laugh: Do I have to ask what is her clan name? This is now silly, to reason exactly that.

Took me less than a 1min to discover that the Khoemana uses the Springbok in their clan names. Oh, yes, the Khoi-San isn't recognised, right?
 
As one of SA's national animals it's supported by the current government. If people believe that this symbol is so bad then vote for a party who doesn't support this supposed apartheid symbol.
 
Google has removed a special version of its logo for South African users and apologised for posting it in the first place.

The search giant created a special Google Doodle for Freedom Day 2020, as it had in years before, and announced it at 09:00 South African time in a Twitter post – which was still available at the time of publication.

The image, Google said, "features the country's national animal, the emblematic springbok".
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Link.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
:laugh: Do I have to ask what is her clan name? This is now silly, to reason exactly that.

Took me less than a 1min to discover that the Khoemana uses the Springbok in their clan names. Oh, yes, the Khoi-San isn't recognised, right?
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They will never be recognised as the First Nation, because that would validate their claim to all the land in South Africa.
 
the idiots with their twitter comments :ROFL:

stating it is not our national animal: it is to this day fyi
stating the Protea is our emblem instead: both the Protea and Springbok emblems come from the apartheid era fyi

seems they've completely forgotten which animal was on the jersey worn by the most recent Rugby World Cup winning captain ... a proud and highly vaunted black man even
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
the idiots with their twitter comments :ROFL:

stating it is not our national animal: it is to this day fyi
stating the Protea is our emblem instead: both the Protea and Springbok emblems come from the apartheid era fyi

seems they've completely forgotten which animal was on the jersey worn by the most recent Rugby World Cup winning captain ... a proud and highly vaunted black man even
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But his wife is .........
 
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