The Media Research Center’s Tom Olohan ranted in an Oct. 14 post:
Meta AI has exposed its pro-leftist bias on Columbus Day, following years of election interference on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook on behalf of Democrats.
The chatbot chose to bring up a leftist alternative holiday created to undermine Columbus Day and foisted on the public by radicals. In response to the prompt “Happy Columbus Day,” Meta AI vomited out a baffling response: “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” By contrast, Meta AI responded to the prompt “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day” by writing the same greeting at the beginning of its response, even after being challenged for its bias in its Columbus Day response. Coincidentally, Vice President Kamala Harris has also pushed this radical alternative holiday every year she has been in office.
In full, Meta AI wrote the following disgraceful response to a Columbus Day greeting:
“Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! (Also commonly referred to as Columbus Day in some places.) Today is a day to recognize and honor the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contributions of Indigenous peoples. It’s also a time to acknowledge the complexities and controversies surrounding Christopher Columbus’s legacy. Would you like to know more about the history and significance of this day?”
This endorsement of a radically unpatriotic approach to an American holiday is par for the course for Meta. Meta frequently supports the left through election interference and censorship.
At no point does Olohan explain why it’s “radical,” “leftist” or “unpatriotic” to honor the presence of indigenous peoples in North America instead of Columbus, whose presence opened the floodgates to Europeans who largely tried to exploit or kill them. Nor did he identify anything inaccurate Meta AI said. It’s also weird that Olohan is portraying Columbus as an American “patriot” when he lived three centuries before America even existed. While Olohan’s headline denounces all of this aws “woke propaganda,” he doesn’t explain how it’s “woke” or “propaganda” to not hate native Americans. (And how does purported “election interference” figure into it at all?)
It appears that Olohan is taking a very Euro-centric approach here, using partisan screed to try and eliminate Indigenous People’s Day like his forerunners tried to eliminate actual indigenous people. Typical.