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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.

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

B.

Not sure where is the calibration part.

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