Ted Cruz, Dan Patrick criticize liberal boycott of Goya Foods despite past support of Nike boycott

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — Is your boycott an exercise of your First Amendment rights or an attempt to silence free speech? For Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Ted Cruz, it depends.

The two Republicans are out in force against a liberal boycott of Goya Foods, both labeling the movement an attack on free speech. But during last year’s conservative boycott of Nike products, both men pledged to stop purchasing from the American sporting goods company.

“Let’s be honest: Canceling Goya because the CEO said something positive about the president is not the same as boycotting Nike for kowtowing to the woke mob and disrespecting a historic Revolutionary War flag under which thousands of Americans fought and died,” a Cruz spokesman said in a statement Friday.

The controversy over Goya, which bills itself as America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, began last Thursday when CEO Robert Unanue praised President Donald Trump during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/07/13/ted-cruz-dan-patrick-criticize-liberal-boycott-of-goya-foods-despite-past-support-of-nike-boycott/

[mr_lebowski]

1. Actually, dipshit, yah ... it pretty much is ... and nobody has 'canceled' Goya ...

And guess what? Those people that 'fought and died'? Were fucking TRAITORS, not 'Americans'.

Nice dog-whistling there though.

[duforsure]

2. Their rights to free speech aren't being denied,

So that isn't the issue. They can say whoever they support. The right to protest in this way is also in no way infringing on their right to speak. Claiming it does is just an excuse trying to undermine the will of the people , and the people's rights by these Republicans , and they shouldn't be in our government for making such an absurd claim. Republicans just don't like the consequences.