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.
Quit trying to “both sides” fascism. She deserved exactly what she got because that’s what she wants for others.
No, I very much agree with the debate. If joe the mechanic at the nearby car dealership posted something and got fired for it, I would back his right to have done so without retaliation, even if what he posted disagrees with my opinion. As should we all. Same as we should protect the rights of ICE detainees to decent treatment and due process. Because it is the right thing to do. Even mass murders deserve decent treatment and due process.
Said the corpo-fascist