The
wildly popular, very divisive #boycottNFL Twitter hashtag, explained
Hours after the opening game of the 2016 pro football season, Friday morning's top
Twitter trend in the United States was #boycottNFL.*
It started out as backlash against players who have lodged silent protests during the national anthem, but was quickly mocked by other
Twitter users and co-opted by still others to point out many of the
NFL's faults in areas such as player safety.*
If we expand the lens a**ther **tch, the
#boycottNFL hashtag was ultimately one more manifestation of 2016's digitally-fueled culture wars that spring from sources as varied as pro football to movie casting, but so often result in familiar battle lines being drawn.*
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