New York Times uses the B-word (boycott) when
writing about Chobani Yogurt, by Ann Corcoran on November 1, 2016
They raised the issue, not me! I’m not complaining about the New York Times,
this is what they do, but I thought you should see this article (just in case
you didn’t know you were a xenophobic hater for questioning what Hamdi
Ulukaya is doing to Twin Falls, Idaho).
They must be
really fearing another B-word too—Breibart! And, no
surprise, they even bring Donald Trump into the story.
It doesn’t
matter if Ulukaya’s plans to change Twin Falls have been done in secrecy. It
doesn’t matter if he puts on the white hat of humanitarianism as he encourages
a steady supply of cheap immigrant
labor to be brought in at your (taxpayer) expense. It doesn’t
matter if some critics believe refugee labor is slave labor. It doesn’t matter
if you object to the social and cultural changes he promotes for your
community, or that he got lucrative government contracts during the Obama
Administration.
None of those
things matter to the NYT which is out to silence free speech. Only one thing
matters and that is you are a hater of foreigners and they get to call you one
of their favorite grown-up words—xenophobic—for daring to question his business practices that depend on your tax
dollars!
Here
is the story: By many
measures, Chobani embodies the classic American immigrant success story. That
is Lavinia Limon on the left. She is the CEO of a federal refugee resettlement
contractor (USCRI–97% funded by you) and Mr. Chobani Yogurt at the Clinton
Global Initiative. Ms. Limon is paid to supply Chobani Yogurt with legal
refugee labor for his Twin Falls, Idaho plant.
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. Online hate speech is on the rise, reflecting
the rising nationalism displayed by some supporters of Donald J. Trump, who has opposed resettling refugees
in the United States.
“What’s
happening with Chobani is one more flash point in this battle between the
voices of xenophobia and the voices advocating a rational immigration policy,”
said Cecillia Wang, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American
Civil Liberties Union. Continue
reading here.
I’m guessing that the
calls on social media to boycott Chobani Yogurt must be having an impact, and I
am further guessing that the NYT is not helping the yogurt company one bit with
this story. (I think most
people had forgotten that there were calls to boycott Chobani Yogurt.) See our complete archive on the
continuing controversy in Twin Falls, Idaho by clicking
here.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/new-york-times-uses-the-b-word-boycott-when-writing-about-chobani-yogurt/
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