The chief executive of a Michigan bank has lost her job after facing backlash for a social media photo of her family in sweatshirts that read “Lake America,” referencing Donald Trump’s relabeling of Lake Ontario.
Jane Smith from Family First Credit Union recently went viral after sharing the photo of her and three relatives wearing navy blue crewnecks with the words “Lake America” scrawled in white. The picture was snapped as her family left on September 11 for a 10-day trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but Smith says the sweatshirts were edited onto their bodies using AI.
“We weren’t trying to make a political statement,” Smith told Michigan outlet WJRT. “However, we were kind of poking fun at the fact that one of the Great Lakes’ names were getting changed.”
Family First Credit Union announced Wednesday that Smith was no longer with the company and that Jason Acosta, the chief operations officer, would serve as interim CEO.
The problem with your logic is youre still looking this as “just a joke”.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a joke or not. The punchline is “I support what trump is doing”.
Like, if someone puts on a Nazi uniform, would you feel the same?
What if the sweatshirt said “trans people aren’t people”?
Where do you draw the line?
And do you legitimately not understand how much horrible shit is legal to say?
If that’s the line, we’re fucked.
No I’m not. I think they are an absolute garbage of a person. I just don’t think anyone’s livelihood should be impacted by what they do in their free time.
If our employers can police our character even during off hours then we are never off the clock and are owned by the company.
We really are already owned since we need need to work or starve, but I’d rather get to at least live the few waking hours I have where I’m not working as I choose.
There shouldn’t be any line as far as my employer is concerned.
Like I said:
I thought you just didn’t realize what you were saying…
But you clarified and are apparently just 100% ok with fucking hat speech
can’t tell if this is a redhat pun
I’m 100% okay with not being company property.
It’s funny how you think company “morality” only works in the direction that favors you. Wasn’t all that long ago that being found out gay meant a company would fire you, but sure let the shareholders to decide what you get to do at home. After all the company only has your best interest at heart
Alright little buddy, it’s been fun but regardless of if you know what you’re saying or not, the first rule of the internet remains the same.
I truly hope your life gets better and you develop some empathy tho just not going to keep seeing your comments because I know how I likely either is
It’s really funny how you think companies truly care about what’s right and have only your personal best interests at heart.
If tomorrow it became more profitable to support Trump they absolutely would. Look at what every company in Nazi Germany did. They shifted to support those in power regardless of any morality to continue making money.
Companies should never police morality. They don’t care about right or wrong. They care about money. Sure this time they’re hurting the right people, but you’re naive to think that will always be the case.
You want to ban hate speech? Get your government to do it so you have a set standard that’s equally applicable.