please stop saying holiday when you mean Christmas
Changing the names of concerts and parties and vacation times and the season and decorations and pretty much everything doesn’t mean anything when the content of these things doesn’t change.
“Holiday concerts” be so fr there are 15 Christmas songs and one refrain of maoz tzur or dreidl
“Holiday aesthetic” I see red and green and white
“Holiday/winter break” it’s Christmas break. It happens around Christmas. Stores and restaurants and companies and schools close for Christmas.
“Holiday movies” you’re watching home alone.
“Happy holidays” appreciated from a cashier but that card has a Christmas tree
“Holiday spirit” joy and grace and peace? How about the spirit of fighting back against colonialist empires that try to force their culture on us?
I appreciate that this is generally a well meaning attempt to create inclusivity, but I think the populace should be doing more. In practice this often feels like a way people make themselves feel better about the fact that Christmas and Christian is so embedded into American culture in such a way that makes the months of November and December unbearable for many members of religious minorities.
I mean in all fairness the Jewish holiday spirit is usually either "they tried to kill us, we won, let's eat", "they tried to kill us, they won, let's fast" or "The torah says it, we're doing it". The christian holiday spirit is very different.
Also further thing: "let's have a discussion of Chanukkah!" and then it's near Christmas and a week after Chanukkah ended.