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Honestly, if it wins, I really do think the "Christmas" category should either be put to a vote to change it to "holiday" instead, or just changed by executive order.
Christmas is dominant in December and many people celebrate it, but some do not, and there are other holidays around the same time as well. It just seems exclusionary to leave them out. There are not only those of us who post, but also many lurkers - some of whom may also feel excluded - and our decision on this category (should it win) will remain in posterity even if the category only lasts one year. Do we really want to be seen as a group who preferred to only include Christmas-themed books and exclude other holiday books such as Hanukkah-themed ones? If we did it by just not thinking about it, it'd be one thing, but the point has now been brought up to us and so deciding against including other holidays would be exclusionary in my opinion, even if the majority of nominations will probably still be Christmas-themed.
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