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Katie Hopkins - what’s her deal??

134 replies

Meshy12 · 03/01/2020 23:37

I mean she is just vile based on her tweets - full of what can only be seen to be white supremacy and racism and then switching to supporting India against Pakistan/Islam

Examples;

  • comparing migrants to cockroaches
  • complaining about migrants ruining New Year’s Eve in Germany
  • saying that it’s ok to be white (or course it is) and that the white are “winning” (winning what??)
  • being very rude to stormzy and Meghan marker
  • hating asylum seekers but praying for Aussies to be able to escape the current situation (and not understanding the irony in that at all)
  • complaining about children who are named after places and that she wouldn’t want her kids to know them (her own child is called India)
And so on

There are too many examples to mention both recent and old and she just seems to be getting worse

I shouldn’t see her output but I do - and it enrages me

Is she doing it for attention? Why is she even allowed to say these things without being done for a hate crime? Why is she allowed an outlet in the press (I think she is even worse than the garbage spouted out by the daily fail)

Even piers Morgan has told her she is a horrible racist

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GoddessOfTransformativeWrath · 03/01/2020 23:54

For money

Luzina · 03/01/2020 23:55

Definitely for money. Maybe she was always horrible but has amped it up as a career. I manage very well to ignore her.

Craftycorvid · 03/01/2020 23:56

Have gone through loathing the woman to deciding she may actually be mentally ill.

ConfCall · 03/01/2020 23:58

I think it’s just her “thing”. She’s kind of become a bit of a parody of herself. I sometimes wonder what she’s like, privately, with friends and whether she’s actually quite run-of-the-mill.

TheNameGames · 04/01/2020 01:19

Why do you see her output? Hasn't she been fired from many of her jobs where she would be seen by a somewhat mainstream audience? I never hear from her these days. Do you follow her or something?

Meshy12 · 04/01/2020 01:56

@thenamegames

Nope I definitely don’t follow her - I read this independent article today which Is a prime example

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.indy100.com/article/stormzy-piers-morgan-katie-hopkins-racism-britain-twitter-9259131%3famp

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cheeseislife8 · 04/01/2020 02:02

She was probably anyways like that, but now is getting fame and money as a result. Negative attention is still attention I guess

bettybattenburg · 04/01/2020 02:05

She's a bitch who thrives on negative attention. She's probably the only woman I'd be prepared to call a bitch to her face.

Roxingaroundtheworld · 04/01/2020 02:07

I think she just wants attention

RoundWithAFridge · 04/01/2020 02:29

Brain damage in the empathy regions?

Gingerkittykat · 04/01/2020 02:30

Initially I think it was for attention and being the pantomime baddie to earn money.

Now I think she is just vile, her white supremacy is downright disturbing.

The less attention and outrage she gets the better, I don't know if she still appears on mainstream TV or she is confined to be vile online now.

ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen · 04/01/2020 04:06

She makes her living by being incendiary.

She's allowed to be incendiary because we still have freedom of speech in the UK.

If you don't want to interact with her/hear from her you can block or mute her on Twitter and not click on any articles with her name in the headline.

HTH

MaxNormal · 04/01/2020 07:10

Well we don't technically have freedom of speech as enshrined in a constitution.
But be that as it may, people do have a right to an opinion on her and to say that she's a vile cunt.
HTH

OffTheShelfElf · 04/01/2020 07:29

I feel sorry for her children.

Meshy12 · 04/01/2020 11:12

@ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen hmm well it’s not an unfettered right to free speech - it’s always subject to a restriction that you can’t cause another person harassment or incite racial or religious hatred

And I have a right to ask why she is such a racist tool and express my opinion on her

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bluebell34567 · 04/01/2020 11:14

she should have some consequences.

ManonBlackbeak · 04/01/2020 11:38

I think she has serious mental health/psychological problems, possibly a personality disorder. I always thought there was something not quite right about her, going back to when she was on the Apprentice. The fact that she see's nothong wrong in pursuing married men speaks volumes about her character.

GreenTulips · 04/01/2020 11:42

I think the government pay her to distract the public from ‘other news’

I’d just ignore her

longwayoff · 04/01/2020 11:42

@bluebell34567, she's had some consequences and had to sell her house to pay libel damages to Jack Monroe. Hopefully she'll be paying more before long, she can't help herself. Vile hag.

Deedadada · 04/01/2020 11:44

I agree Blackbeak, and the fact she judges children by their name, very strange

Sharkyfan · 04/01/2020 11:44

Yes as pp I thought she was currently in some financial trouble.
Maybe she’s upping it out of desperation in order to raise her profile and earnings?

Sarcelle · 04/01/2020 11:50

I think she has been fired by all the mainstream media so she has resorted to being even more disgusting. She is on her uppers due to the lessened income and Jack Monroe's costs.

AutumnRose1 · 04/01/2020 11:52

I feel sorry for her children too

TSSDNCOP · 04/01/2020 11:55

I’m convince she does it simply to be as outrageous as possible and provoke a matched response purely for money.

Which, to be fair, has worked like a charm. Trouble is, as she’s finding now, everything has a hard limit and she’s reached it.

She’s that bonkers I half expect her to juxtapose into a Julie Andrews routine now and only be extremely nice.

Hidingtonothing · 04/01/2020 11:58

The rest of her behaviour doesn't shock me but fancy being rude to Stormzy Shock