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Chobani yogurt, a popular American Greek yogurt brand, is currently being boycotted by numerous extreme right-wing groups in the United States for employing "too many" refugees. 

The founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, is a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent. He employs around 2,000 people to make Greek yogurt, of which some 15 percent are refugees. 

Ulukaya has given more than 300 refugees jobs, leading some to claim that Ulukaya wants "to drown the United States in Muslims," according to the New York Times.

"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," Cecillia Wang, director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said

"The minute a refugee has a job, that's the minute they stop being a refugee," Ulukaya said, according to The Sydney Morning Herald

Last year, Ulukaya signed the Giving Pledge, promising to give away a majority of his fortune to assist refugees. 

Pushing back against the racism, many people want to buy more Chobani yogurt, not less

"Boycott hatred, not opportunity"