Google Calendar has removed cultural celebrations like Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month as President Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
The calendar has also erased Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hispanic Heritage Month from its pages, as earlier reported by The Verge.
Google users attacked the calendar changes, and accused the tech company of trying to curry favor with Trump.
“Calendar used to capitulate to fascism,” one user wrote on Google’s Calendar Help page. “This is shameful. Reinstate these calendar dates!!!”
“These bootlickers have immediately shown us who they are,” another user wrote on the help page. “I thought I was the only one who noticed! Let’s spread the word! Google are Nazi sympathizers.”
Google Calendar users seemingly noticed the changes earlier this month, when they started posting comments on the website’s help page.
Google said it removed the holidays last year when it “standardized” its calendars to only include public holidays and national observances as classified by timeanddate.com, according to statements posted on the help page by Google product experts.
“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” a Google spokesperson told The Post in a statement.
“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,” the spokesperson added.
Those who wish to include additional holidays can subscribe to a third-party calendar, import calendar events or create their own events, Google said.
Timeanddate.com did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Over the past few years, major US companies have been backtracking on their diversity policies, a trend that has only sped up since Trump took office and signed an executive order banning DEI programs across the federal level.
Tech firms have fallen in line.
Google earlier this month killed its diversity hiring goals, and said it was reviewing recent court decisions and Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing DEI.
Google has shown a newfound allegiance to Trump’s policies during his second term, with chief executive Sundar Pichai attending the president’s inauguration alongside other influential tech executives like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
On Monday, Google officially switched the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” on its Maps app. Trump’s preferred title will only be seen for those searching in the US.
The company said it will also revert back to using Mount McKinley, not Denali, for the mountain in Alaska per Trump’s executive order.
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