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The so-called War on Christmas supposedly involves commercial entities' deliberately eschewing the use of religious symbolism and terminology in their operations and products — even to the extent of forbidding their employees from wishing customers a Merry Christmas. The stereotype of the atheistic, liberal, anti-Christmas combatant was perfectly encapsulated in a Dec. 4, 2019, tweet from someone who asserted that he was the manager of a Starbucks outlet in Charlotte, North Carolina. He proclaimed that he had informed my employees that they will be fired on the spot if I hear them say 'Merry Christmas' to any customers — an action he purportedly took because he personally dislike(s) conservative Christians: That outrage-inducing tweet gained added prominence when it was amplified a few weeks later by the Facebook campaign page for Republican U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa, where it was reposted with the added comment Wow:But King (or his campaign) was taken in by a troll. As Starbucks explained many times over, the person behind the Twitter account that posted the controversial tweet (@MuellerDad69) was not a Starbucks employee: And that account — which Business Insider (BI) noted previously claimed to discriminate against military service members and police officers who were customers at Starbucks — was indeed suspended for violating Twitter's rules: BI also observed that King, who was stripped of his committee seats by his own party in January [2019] after making a series of racist comments, often taunts his political opponents online and traffics in conspiracy theories.
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