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submitted 1 year ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Those labor laws were written in blood. I hope we don't need to write them again.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 20 points 1 year ago

Billionaires can donate blood too

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. For the dolla dolla bills.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because outside of champagne progressives, nobody cares

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 year ago

A friendly reminder: Stop using Google services!

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Yes please, stop doing that, that'll show them

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.....

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Other cultural events like Black History Month.

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