Fantasy football players on ESPN noticed something very interesting. Apparently, the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” has some rules about what you can and cannot name your fantasy football teams.
And one of the phrases on the banned list is “White Lives Matter.” However, if you’d like to name your team “Hamas Lives Matter,” that’s perfectly fine.
As, of course, is “Black Lives Matter.” In fact, as far as I could tell from doing some trials on what ESPN did and did not allow, “White Lives Matter” was a very specifically banned phrase.
“Jewish Lives Matter” was allowed and “Blue Lives Matter” was accepted, as well.
What’s interesting, though, is that they do not ban the word “Hamas.” But ESPN does ban the word “Nazi.”
Assuming that the idea is that some fantasy football players on ESPN might be offended by the phrase, “White Lives Matter,” what must a Jewish fantasy football player think if they see a team named “Hamas Lives Matter”?
