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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 10 November 2015 05:49:08PM *  0 points [-]

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.

NB - this is a calibration exercise about an empirical fact, I am not trying to start a debate about this issue.

Submitting...

Comment author: username2 10 November 2015 09:45:24PM 3 points [-]

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Comment_formatting#Polls

Comment author: [deleted] 13 November 2015 03:36:12AM 0 points [-]

Neither answer is correct. Snowmen and such are not properly Christmas-themed. American Protestants just lack all knowledge of winter festivals other than the exact combination of Northern-European-pagan and Christian that they celebrate.

Comment author: banx 11 November 2015 12:52:09AM 1 point [-]

I had already heard about this, and was 95+% sure of my answer. But you didn't say to not answer if you already knew, so I voted. I'm letting you know so that you can disregard the vote if you want to.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 November 2015 06:03:56PM 1 point [-]

B.

Not sure where is the calibration part.

Comment author: username2 13 November 2015 12:21:20PM 0 points [-]

Why should we even care about viral videos? There are plenty of more important and interesting events to use as calibration exercises.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 November 2015 01:18:53AM 0 points [-]

It would have been good to ask for credence instead of a boolean choice.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 November 2015 08:22:12PM 0 points [-]

B.

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