Google's Image of the day. . . not so great.

Today's Google image, repeated here under fair use:

 

This is an image in celebration of the late  Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese American Marxist (and later Islamic) agitator.  

She shouldn't be celebrated.

It's worth noting that not everyone who demonstrates for a worthy cause, does so with a goal that's worthy of celebrating.

Hitler was adamantly opposed to tobacco use and the Nazis took on smoking big time as a public health hazard.  Should Adolph Hitler be praised as a public health pioneer?  The Nazis were some of the very first to really try to enlighten a public on the danger of smoking.  Should Adolph Hitler get a photo of the day?

The early Communists in the USSR supported the self determination of nations.  They got over it.  They were also in support of all sorts of evil.  Should Lenin appear on a Google image of the day?

No doubt she supported equality, but Yuri Kochiyama was an American Marxist (and later a convert to Islam) in the era when we already knew what Marxism meant.  Millions starved in the Ukraine.  Thousands imprisoned (and at that time) in the Soviet Union and China.  A blood red legacy everywhere the red flag had prevailed.  But it wasn't just Marxist causes she supported, seemingly any radical, as long as they were opposed to the United States, got her approval, including Osama Bin Laden, about which she said:

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 ... [who] had severe dislike for the US government and those who held power in the US. I think all of them felt the US government and its spokesmen were all arrogant, racist, hypocritical, self-righteous, and power hungry..... You asked, 'Should freedom fighters support him?' Freedom fighters all over the world, and not just in the Muslim world, don’t just support him; they revere him; they join him in battle. He is no ordinary leader or an ordinary Muslim.

To support Che Guevara and Osama Bin Laden in the same breath is delusional.  They certainly wouldn't have supported each other and neither is worthy of support.  Ironically, this same sort of American leftist support comes in the context that, if the supporting person lived subject to the person they're praising, they'd be shut up.  It's a tribute to the very nation that such unthinking agitators rail against that they're allowed to spout off in support of those who would hardly support them directly if they lived under them.  Was Osama Bin Laden a "freedom fighter"?  Not of the sort of freedom we'd recognize.  That such personalities exist, therefore, is more a tribute to us, than anyone else.