It was, to my mind, the beginning of the backlash to #MeToo. Ivanka was not the only one saying these sorts of things in private. Far from it. Many people of privilege were repeating similar things within the quiet comforts of their offices and lunches and dinner parties. The progress was great! It was about time! But! It could backfire! Women will end up paying the price!
That, mercifully, did not pan out. But the stance has evolved, as what has become known as “cancel culture” has come into focus, and Ivanka’s Team Trump position appears to have hardened. On Tuesday night, the White House senior adviser tweeted a photo of herself displaying a can of Goya black beans in her manicured hands, against an all-beige backdrop. “If it’s Goya, it has to be good,” she captioned the photo, adding the translation, “Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.” Bean brand ambassador didn’t seem to be part of Ivanka’s reel, but politics is a strange business.
The posts come as Goya faces backlash and public consumer revolts after its CEO, Robert Unanue, visited the White House last week and explained that “we’re all truly blessed...to have a leader like President Trump.” People started dumping out the company’s products and urging others to steer clear, with hashtags like #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya trending. Unanue doubled down in a Fox News interview on Friday, saying that he was “not apologizing” and calling the boycott a “suppression of speech.” It is unclear if the campaign has impacted the privately-held business, but Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning that Goya is “doing GREAT,” adding, “the Radical Left smear machine backfired, people are buying like crazy.”
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