For Helping Immigrants, Chobani’s Founder Draws Threats.

[elleng]

'By many measures, Chobani embodies the classic American immigrant success story.

Its founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, is a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent. He bought a defunct yogurt factory in upstate New York, added a facility in Twin Falls, Idaho, and now employs about 2,000 people making Greek yogurt.

But in this contentious election season, the extreme right has a problem with Chobani: In its view, too many of those employees are refugees.

As Mr. Ulukaya has stepped up his advocacy — employing more than 300 refugees in his factories, starting a foundation to help migrants, and traveling to the Greek island of Lesbos to witness the crisis firsthand — he and his company have been targeted with racist attacks on social media and conspiratorial articles on websites including Breitbart News.

Now there are calls to boycott Chobani. Mr. Ulukaya and the company have been taunted with racist epithets on Twitter and Facebook. Fringe websites have published false stories claiming Mr. Ulukaya wants “to drown the United States in Muslims.” And the mayor of Twin Falls has received death threats, partly as a result of his support for Chobani.'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/business/for-helping-immigrants-chobanis-founder-draws-threats.html?

[Lifelong Protester]

1. The Greek yogurt I eat

is Chobani, because of his stance on profit sharing!

[shenmue]

2. From now on

that's my yogurt.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I wish I liked Greek yogurt because if I did I'd buy some from them.

[uppityperson]

4. I really like Chobani yogurt, will make sure to buy their exclusively

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Contacted Chobani through its website to say I love their yogurt even more now

[Warpy]

6. Nice to know, I bought some unflavored Chobani today

for yogurt chicken later this week. I'm now sitting here in a haze of consumer self righteousness.

Good for him for employing refugees. I hope he keeps it up. Refugees with jobs and hope are less likely to be suckers for Islamist or other propaganda.

I can just imagine the sour faced xenophobic right wing "Christian" types who are calling for the boycott.

[JI7]

7. we often have lists to things to boycott but we should have a list to things to support also

and this is actually an item that most people could afford and use .

[SMC22307]

8. Good luck getting folks to give up that Key Lime Crumble, wingnuts.

Not gonna happen.

[Egnever]

9. Argh now I have to go find some of that.

[SMC22307]

10. Heh.

(Kicking thread for those who didn't know wingnuts have declared War on Yogurt...)