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.
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…