Google Calendar users noticed that references to Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Jewish American Heritage Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day had all disappeared.
The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.
Why remove things that don’t hurt anyone? Just to curry favor with him? For what?
To get those pesky hard fought labour laws overturned.
Those labor laws were written in blood. I hope we don’t need to write them again.
Billionaires can donate blood too
And when those laws were written, we had very few weapons in the hands of citizens.
Now we are swimming in them.
Yes. For the dolla dolla bills.
Because outside of champagne progressives, nobody cares
A friendly reminder: corporations are not your friends. Everything they do is in effort of chasing profits, and they’ll bend over and look pretty for whichever party is in power.
This is just another unfortunate reminder that respect and equity are not factors in their decisions.
They could have made a toggle, instead they removed it. They’re signaling.
A friendly reminder: Stop using Google services!
Yes please, stop doing that, that’ll show them
I remember someone that definitely considered themselves, unironically, as a “social justice warrior” trying to lecture me about things when I said something about corporate bullshit in relation to DEI or the like.
They really did think that corporations doing rainbow-washing or BLM or some “women in code” thing were really acting in good faith. I thought otherwise.
Clearly it was their first rodeo. I still don’t know if they have figured out that, discussions about “intersectionality” aside, it really does revert back to economics, for the most part. If a corporation believes it will make more money by going “woke”, it will do so. But the very microsecond thinks it will not, well…
Other cultural events like Black History Month.
Good, I never asked for any of that in my Google Calendar (which I use rarely and only because it’s shared with a few other people). Let them do their corporate virtue signaling another way. Also they never included Trans Day of Remembrance.
