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BumRushDaShow (146,884 posts)Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:57 AM14RecommendGoogle Removes Pride Month from Calendar: What to KnowSource: NewsweekPublished Feb 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM ESTGoogle has removed Pride Month, along with Black History Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day, from Google Calendar. In an email from Google shared with Newsweek, the company called its previous calendar process "unsustainable." Google Calendar will now show only public holidays and national observances.Why It MattersThe move comes amid a broader cultural and political debate about the value of policies on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle federal DEI programs upon his return to office on January 20 and ordered what he called the "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."Since this order, multiple high profile companies, including Meta, McDonalds, Walmart, Target and Google have stepped back from their DEI goals. Critics have expressed fears about LGBTQ+ rights under the new administration, and in particular concerns about the Supreme Court potentially overturning its landmark ruling that established a right to gay marriage.What To KnowThe update was confirmed by a Google spokesperson to The Verge, which first reported the change. The spokesperson said that the Calendar team had manually been adding what they described as "a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world." The spokesperson said that maintaining this consistently on a global scale wasn't sustainable. Google donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration, and its CEO, Sundar Pichai, was in attendance at the ceremony.Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/google-removes-pride-month-calendar-black-history-holocaust-remembrance-2029257
Well, you can still celebrate all of these things if you want to, but Google Calendar is no longer forcing them upon you if you don't. While some people are blaming Donald Trump — who else? — the tech giant said that it actually made the decision last year because trying to keep up with all of the cultural and historic events was just too much. So it's sticking to public and national holidays. A spokesperson said: QuoteSome years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.It makes sense. You can't please all the people all of the time, so why try? Of course, the woke mob isn't happy and doesn't understand that this is actually just a smart business move rather than some kind of personal blow to its beliefs. People have taken to sites like Reddit and X and even the Google Support forums to share their outrage over... a calendar not automatically reminding them about an event. I mean, they do actually realize that they can go into their personal calendars and add the dates themselves, right? No one is stopping them from celebrating whatever they want to.
Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.
NewHendoLib (60,813 posts)2. Orwellian
I’m tired of gays, if they can have a month for them then we need a veterans month. I’m sure there’s more of us than them.
Too GD many holidays that we are forced to celebrate perversion, fags, and trannys.
I think Scott Adams' demand that Elbonian Independence Day be honored was the final straw.
I'll happily celebrate Elbonian Independence Day, Catbert's Birthday and Dogbert's Coronation Day before I waste a single moment's thought on Tranny empathy, Queer celebration or Pedo acceptance day/week/month/ever...
