The Google Calendar app has stopped mentioning various cultural observances, like LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Indigenous Peoples Month. 

The company said that it wasn’t “sustainable” to keep mentioning these observances, but commenters accused Google of removing them in response to the recent right-wing pressure campaign against “diversity” efforts.

“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld wrote in a statement to The Verge. “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.”

Veld said that, in mid-2024, Google returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important observances to their own personal calendars.

Commenters on a Google support forum accused the tech giant of “kissing [President Donald Trump’s] butt,” and another called the removals an “embarrassing … example of the fast descent into fascism.” 

“They are trying to erase anyone who isn’t a cis white male,” another commenter added.

The commenters were likely referring to Trump’s recent crusade against all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently issued a memo instructing the Department of Justice to investigate companies with DEI initiatives “to end illegal discrimination and preferences.”

Labor law attorney Mark S. Spring noted that Bondi stated that “educational, cultural, or historical observances such as Black History Month … or similar events that celebrate diversity, recognize historical contributions, and promote awareness without engaging in exclusion or discrimination are permissible” under Bondi’s order.

Google recently removed mentions of its past DEI commitments from its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission and will end its goal of hiring applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds, MSNBC reported. 

Google is just one of numerous companies that have recently ended their DEI efforts, though data shows that consumers increasingly support companies that keep their DEI commitments.