WASHINGTON – There should be no real outrage in the United States if the supposed progressives have nothing better to do than put collective anger in Goya, because the president of the ubiquitous food company went to the White House where he announced that he was giving 1 million cans. of chickpeas and another million pounds of food to the American food banks.
The brute, Goya President Bob Unanue had the gall to praise the CEO of the United States during a roundtable discussion with Hispanic leaders. Unanue said the United States was “blessed” for having a leader like President Trump who is “an incredible builder.” He added: “And we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president, and we pray for our country, that we continue to prosper and grow.”
For the crime of having good manners and holding the White House in esteem, Democrats and activists started a Twitter campaign #Goyaaway to boycott Goya products.
“Oh look, it’s like I was Googling ‘how to make your own Adobo,'” representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., replied on Twitter.
Former San Antonio mayor and failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro tweeted: “Freedom of expression works both ways. As long as you support a man like Trump, many consumers will tell the company to leave.”
Former Representative Luis Gutiérrez, Democrat from Illinois, took a video of himself in his pantry stocked in Goya and shouted: “I tell the owners of Goya that they came as conquerors, they annihilated our indigenous population in Puerto Rico, you exploited Puerto Ricans for centuries under their colonialism, and now they want to provoke more of Donald Trump, who hates us, despises us. “
In this boycott, however, colonialism is not the goal, civility is. In the absence of an election, the left cannot remove Trump from the Oval Office, so the goal is to isolate him by flogging potential friendlies to submit.
To his credit, Unanue is the rare American CEO who did not give in to the social media mob.
During the McCarthy era, Washington blacklisted screenwriters and actors who had been associated with the Communist Party, making it impossible for them to get a job in Hollywood.
Is it progress then when the left threatens the livelihood of 4,000 employees because its president appeared in a Republican White House?
The topic here is: guilt by association.
Some Twitter users accused Unanue of promoting “hatred”, while others accused him of supporting “children in cages” with photos of detained children crossing the border seen behind a wire fence.
It is ironic because the left used photos of Associated Press children behind metal fences to distort Trump’s family separation policy, unaware that these children were jailed in 2014 when President Barack Obama was in the Oval Office. Because I was enforcing federal immigration law.
Note that the left did not attack Unanue for visiting the Obama White House for supporting “hatred” and caging children.
As for Trump, he continues to kick the hornets’ nest because he believes that the constant intolerance of the left will keep his base ginned and give them something to do: buy beans.
On Wednesday, as the food frenzy subsided, Trump tweeted: “@GoyaFoods is doing BIG. The Radical Left smear machine went off, people are buying like crazy! Staff posted a photo of Trump smiling and waving to the Goya products strategically placed in front of him on the resolved desktop.
On Tuesday, her daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump tweeted a photo of her showing a can of Goya black beans. Ethics specialists accused Trump’s eldest daughter of violating federal ethics standards. But for this White House, the flap meant one thing: free advertising.
Everything is turning into a referendum on Trump: hydroxychloroquine, masks, opening of schools, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the police, whatever.
In the age of social media, fans on both sides have effectively drawn a line through each public square and told people that they have to choose one side. The more inconsequential the subject, the more violent its rhetoric.
And the younger they are, the happier they are to try to destroy a philanthropist, a family business, and their workers simply because the person in charge disagrees with them. Sure they have a right to boycott, but that doesn’t mean they should try to marginalize everyone they don’t hate with their intensity.
They have no idea what it takes to maintain a civil society.
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