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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

OP posts:
Lordfrontpaw · 04/01/2020 15:59

My aunt had a brain tumour - she lost her sense of smell, not decency!

LilyJade · 04/01/2020 16:16

I have epilepsy & can confirm that I don't hang out with fascists.

travellover · 04/01/2020 16:40

Attention = money

lljkk · 04/01/2020 18:02

Some people love their own opinions.
KH gets paid to love her own opinions.
KH has said a few things I kind of liked, she has done a good job teaching her own children high self esteem. They aren't pushovers (& this is a good thing).
Then again, KH loves her own opinions & maybe has taught her kids to love own opinions, too.
Was an MNer who as a random on street encounter, said that KH helped her with something, can't remember what the event was, maybe a buggy disaster, but MNer said she only recognised KH afterwards & KH was supportive kindness itself in the moment of need.

LilyJade · 04/01/2020 18:22

KH shared a platform with a Holocaust denier at a far right conference recently

Patroclus · 04/01/2020 18:31

Her 'final solution' comment pretty much confirmed to me she does it for the exposure/money.

Patroclus · 04/01/2020 18:35

Whats her actual job anyway? shes the type who takes great delight spitting bile at the unemployed but what is it she actually does?

Etinox · 04/01/2020 18:40

How does she make money? She doesn’t have a column any more does she? Are the comments on this thread about comments she makes in Twitter? How does that turn into money?

PickAChew · 04/01/2020 18:51

She's an arsehole, that's her deal.

And she was making money out of being an arsehole.

zonkin · 04/01/2020 18:54

She made/makes a living from being an arsehole/"controversial". That seem to be drying up now.

Mlou32 · 04/01/2020 19:07

I think initially, she was just a straight talking, no nonsense woman who said exactly what she thought. However over time and with our increasingly politically correct, lack of free speech society, she has tried to become the antidote to this, by coming out with very controversial statements and opinions, to 1. show that she can say what she likes and stick two fingers up to political correctness and 2. to keep herself in the public eye.

rwalker · 04/01/2020 19:14

At the beginning she was just brutal and no filter and there was an element of truth to some of her things she said .
BUT the more attention she got the more carried away she got it was as if nothing was off limits just for the sake of causing an uproar .
Ultiamtley she got totally carried away craving attention and fell on her own sword .

chomalungma · 04/01/2020 19:26

However over time and with our increasingly politically correct, lack of free speech society, she has tried to become the antidote to this, by coming out with very controversial statements and opinions

And yet for a country with a 'lack of free speech', she certainly has got free speech.

lljkk · 04/01/2020 19:40

Free speech means we are free to disagree with her. Confused

BilboBercow · 04/01/2020 19:43

She basically makes money from being a cunt

Nightwish1 · 04/01/2020 22:09

When Alisha Mcphail was raped, tortured, murdered and left to rot in the forest, her sad little corpse was barely cold before Hopkins saw it as an opportunity to get money through exposure, outrage and clicks to her twitter by blaming it on immigrants.

If you like, you're a cunt. End of.

Lordfrontpaw · 04/01/2020 22:14

Nightwish - I generally hate the ‘if you’re like/do/think X you are absolutely an ***’ idea, but I do have to agree with you there!

PortiaCastis · 04/01/2020 22:23

She's an attention seeking gobshite who lets her tongue run amok with vile insulting bullcrap to garner herself a nice little career. She's best put out to grass and ignored because she revels in attention like a teenager on instagram, she did get a bit of comeuppance when Jack Monroe sued the arse off her so hopefully her kerb licking racism will finish her
Nasty little turd.

Choosername · 04/01/2020 22:41

I periodically check what she’s up to on Twitter out of curiosity. She’s pitting Indians against Pakistanis, Hindus against Muslims, whites against blacks, rich against poor and so on. Whoever claims this is “free speech” is deeply mistaken. This is “hate speech” and it’s really disturbing that people can’t tell the difference.

I have reported her so many times on twitter but nothing happens. She had a video recently making jokes about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother, and this is something aimed at her US audience. The racist Americans love bullying Ilhan. I think she’s being funded by these racist groups in the US and U.K. giving her a criteria to follow.

If you check the replies on her twitter feed, it’s people telling her to fuck off though, which is good

cousinboneless · 04/01/2020 22:55

She is offensive for the sake of being offensive, she thrives on attention. Don't feed the troll. If more people wised up then she wouldn't have the status she does.

chomalungma · 04/01/2020 23:27

I have reported her so many times on twitter but nothing happens

It makes you wonder what she would have to do to get her blue tick removed. Many other people get banned from Twitter for what they say. She seems immune.

She also spreads lies and fake news to her audience. Usually designed to stir up hatred.

Roussette · 05/01/2020 09:03

I don't know how she gets away with it on Twitter. She has said far far worse that many that have got banned.

What is so vile about her is she hits people when they are down, when the've lost a loved one, she gets mileage out of other people's grief. The world would be a better place if she would just fuck off somewhere.

Her poor kids. They are young teens now. What a burden they bear. She's already said her son is good looking but her daughter are not.

Roussette · 05/01/2020 09:04

*daughters

PineappleDanish · 05/01/2020 09:07

I used to think it was all an act, that she had created this extreme personality to shock and get column inches. She was vile and attention seeking on the Apprentice, horrible to one of the other contestants purely because he was Northern.

Now I just think she has to go further and further to shock and be controversial and has turned into a parody of herself, and now does belief the bile she spouts.

Bryzeebubs78 · 05/01/2020 13:00

Personally I get what she means about kids names. You can judge a person by their name with the amount of young mums choosing stupid celeb names does tell what kinda home background they come from. I loved a name to name my son then seen it graffiti on a wall put me right off. Everything she says is on point.

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