The wildly popular, very divisive #boycottNFL Twitter hashtag, explained

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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 another notch, 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.  Read more...

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