Google bends a knee to Trump again—this time around holidays
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Google was among the California-based tech companies that donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Then, in a major departure from its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, it scrapped its diversity hiring targets. These...
  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    1 day ago

    According to CNBC, Google’s popular calendars no longer tell users the story of Black History Month (February) or Women’s History Month (March), among other historical dates. Other observances, such as Jewish American Heritage Month (May), Pride Month (June), and Indigenous Peoples Month (November), are no longer noted on Google Calendar, either. Neither is Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27).

    Saved you a click. Also, the Gulf was officially renamed in the apps, but that’s likely already well known.

  • QuincyPeck@lemmy.world
    131·
    24 hours ago

    Google isn’t bending the knee - they are free to do what they wanted to do in the first place. All corporate progressivism is performative.

    • blakenongEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      They’re free to do what they want, any old time!

  • aarRJaay@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    I assume they’ll be taking July 4th out too because of how Native Americans feel about it. … Probably not.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      16·
      24 hours ago

      Oh just the opposite. A federal judge is currently the only obstacle preventing Trump from stripping Native Americans of their birthright citizenship.

      In a short 500 years we went from “You live here, we’ll stay there.” to “We live here, you live there.” to “We live here, you don’t belong here at all.”

      We’re fucking monsters.