Tuesday, May 29, 2018

"the #BoycottABC hashtag . . . went from being to liberal advocacy campaign to a pro-Trump censorship rallying cry in a matter of minutes"

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It started on Tuesday morning when actor Roseanne Barr compared Valarie Jarrett, a black senior advisor to former president Obama, to an ape

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on Tuesday morning, #BoyCottABC took off as an anti-racism protest

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That is, until midday, when ABC responded. The network announced it had cancelled Roseanne

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After ABC's announcement, it took only minutes for the hashtag to completely change hands, switching from those denouncing racism on the left, to pro-Trump and conservative accounts accusing ABC of partisan bias and censorship
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