Marc Reichwein wrote an interesting piece for Welt over the weekend, and it centers over the Frankfurt Book Fair (held yearly). It's typically a five-day event....held in October, and new books are presented in this period.
I should emphasize here....books of all types are presented....fiction and non-fiction. The spectrum from the non-fiction.....from far-left, to far-right.
This idea from Jutta Ditfurth has been presented. Ditfurth, for the record....is a book-writer and politician. The idea? She wants far-right books to be cancelled out. The book fair folks aren't agreeable to the general idea of cancellation.
Reichwein is reporting that Ditfurth is suggesting now that the registration list (the new books to be presented) be sent early to some Antifa folks.
This likely to generate a more politicized book fair? Well....yeah.
There's more than a quarter-million people who come to the book fair, and since the car show business has been 'hunted-out' of Frankfurt.....the book fair is the last four-star fair show in the city.
The odds that the book fair itself might be 'hunted-out'? It might take ten years but I could see several different ways that politicization occurs, and demonstrations are injected into the book show business.
These acts scaring visitors? I might go and suggest that people would feel threatened and deem the show as requiring more security....which would make a lot of people laugh that you need three-hundred private security folks to hold a book fair.
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