As a test of your understanding of modern American socio-political dynamics, answer this question before Googling: Are people upset because:
A) Starbucks increased their usage of Christmas-themed imagery on their coffee cups, thereby appropriating Christian cultural material for crass commercial purposes.
B) Starbucks decreased their usage of Christmas-themed imagery on their coffee cups, thereby reducing the influence and prestige of Christian culture in the US.
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NB - this is a calibration exercise about an empirical fact, I am not trying to start a debate about this issue.
Why should we even care about viral videos? There are plenty of more important and interesting events to use as calibration exercises.
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