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BumRushDaShow

(169,886 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 09:57 AM Feb 2025

Google Removes Pride Month from Calendar: What to Know

Source: Newsweek

Published Feb 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM EST


Google 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 Matters

The 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 Know

The 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

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Google Removes Pride Month from Calendar: What to Know (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 OP
Goodness, these corporations fold so easily True Dough Feb 2025 #1
Orwellian NewHendoLib Feb 2025 #2
Yup... hlthe2b Feb 2025 #3
Yet, Google got photos of most of the streets in the first world. Hugin Feb 2025 #4
Well, they managed to get into just about every street in Mumbai recently! LeftInTX Feb 2025 #12
Do no evil, my ass. SalamanderSleeps Feb 2025 #5
How long before the Muck-tRump regime insists on White Pride Month? Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #6
They really have no fucking principles......................what a bunch of chickenshits...... turbinetree Feb 2025 #7
Cowards Kid Berwyn Feb 2025 #8
Corporations were very quick to bend the knee to MAGA IronLionZion Feb 2025 #9
When I first used the net in maybe 1995 I said "I wonder how long until they fuck it up". twodogsbarking Feb 2025 #10
Google will probably change Ukraine to a bronxiteforever Feb 2025 #11
Hell the FUCKER was what...second in line of BILLIONAIRES at Trumps Inauguration? Bengus81 Feb 2025 #13
Chickenshits! sleroy49 Feb 2025 #14
...we need youtube NowsTheTime Feb 2025 #15
I rarely use Rebl2 Feb 2025 #16
I would never use a google calendar on my phone nor computer kimbutgar Feb 2025 #17
Another corp to boycott... this will inspire innovation. Idiots. nt Blasphemer Feb 2025 #18
Exactly I will be boycotting target also kimbutgar Feb 2025 #19
Boycott ALL Google products JoseBalow Feb 2025 #20
Fucking assholes Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 #21
Cowards. IzzaNuDay Feb 2025 #22

True Dough

(26,707 posts)
1. Goodness, these corporations fold so easily
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 09:58 AM
Feb 2025

Just proves how little they really care about people and only profit.

hlthe2b

(114,004 posts)
3. Yup...
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 10:13 AM
Feb 2025

Never in my life did I think we'd experience all that is going on now... sigh...

Hugin

(37,849 posts)
4. Yet, Google got photos of most of the streets in the first world.
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 10:19 AM
Feb 2025

Now they can’t keep up a calendar better than I can?

Okay, right.

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
12. Well, they managed to get into just about every street in Mumbai recently!
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:48 AM
Feb 2025

About all that can fit on some of those streets are electric three wheelers.

SalamanderSleeps

(1,024 posts)
5. Do no evil, my ass.
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 10:33 AM
Feb 2025

Sundar Pichai spends most of his day licking his own scrotum, while capitalism is killing the planet.

"Fat White Fuck's," come in all colors.

There is no such thing as a smart Lemming.

turbinetree

(27,564 posts)
7. They really have no fucking principles......................what a bunch of chickenshits......
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:09 AM
Feb 2025

and then they give 1 million to a 34 count felon convicted fraudster..............and the best one is that they know.......... like everyone else knows........... except for the maga pieces of shit .............that he took or stole classified document.
Just image on the hiring form they have now..............

Did you ever have or commit a crime from stealing classified document in your life yes or no...........it will not be used a determination for hire............

Kid Berwyn

(24,433 posts)
8. Cowards
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:29 AM
Feb 2025

The essence of Democracy -- each person equal under the law -- is at stake and Google bends its knee to tyranny.

Fucking assholes.

bronxiteforever

(11,212 posts)
11. Google will probably change Ukraine to a
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:44 AM
Feb 2025

Russian province. Maybe the Baltic states too. Do they mark Taiwan as China? Maybe change Canada to the 51st state?

Maybe Google maps will rename the Tombs of the Unknown as Suckers and Losers Tombs.

Bengus81

(10,173 posts)
13. Hell the FUCKER was what...second in line of BILLIONAIRES at Trumps Inauguration?
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:53 AM
Feb 2025

Geee...going along with Trump as a racist,what a shocker.

kimbutgar

(27,257 posts)
17. I would never use a google calendar on my phone nor computer
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 01:14 PM
Feb 2025

Only use an old fashioned paper one.

And another reason to never use google as a search engine either.

kimbutgar

(27,257 posts)
19. Exactly I will be boycotting target also
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 01:33 PM
Feb 2025

Haven’t returned to Facebook or threads since the day before the election. And the thought of eating McDonald’s makes me want to 🤮!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,808 posts)
21. Fucking assholes
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:20 PM
Feb 2025

MAGA ain't as big as you think it is. Stop kissing Trump's oversized stinky orange ass.

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