I don't know how that would invalidate the example; that still doesn't show that there were Christians who felt that way, rather that Fox believed the BuzzFeed story and leaned into it.
Yeah, assuming that Fox News is representative voice for Christians seems way off. They are just as hungry for manufactured outrage and clicks at everyone else.
Fox running a bit telling their viewers they should be angry about something isn’t evidence that anyone was actually angry.
In fact you could just about say the opposite. It is arguably Fox News’s primary business model to tell people what newly manufactured outrage they should be angry about today.
Yeah, but I would argue that Fox news is seeding that rage and making it mainstream. I guarantee that my grandparents would never ever give even a second thought to a starbucks cup that they will never see in their life and if they did come across would would not get offended on their own, but the second they get fed that story from Fox News, it becomes "holy hell look what them damn liberals are doing to christianity, I'd rather die then vote for them!!". This manufactured rage creates extremism by a thousand paper cuts.
