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Katie Hopkins: ‘I definitely identify with that murderer thing, where you click off’
The reality TV star and columnist mocks autism, but says her daughter is ‘on the spectrum’. She derides the ‘National Hotel Service’, but has epilepsy so severe it puts her in hospital. Is Katie Hopkins for real, asks Jon Ronson.
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She is a person that I would like to be able to hate, but mostly I feel rather sorry for her in a detached sort of way. Not all that sorry because her parents are still alive, she has a nice husband and nice kids, lives in a nice house and makes nice money, but she does have horrible epilepsy. I feel sorry for her having that. Still no excuse for some of her more repulsive rants so maybe Jon is right about the psychopathic tendencies.
It's usually men who seem to say horrible things in public (Richard Littlejohn for one) so she does stand out. Whilst I don't like her for behaving like a c***, I do defend her right to be one and would like to see more women stick their heads above the parapet.
Like most people we learn to hate, with time, like us all, we learn something we never knew before, about them and about ourselves and that hate becomes something different.
Very true. As it happens, hating is something I very rarely do, and even then it's the behaviour I hate, not the person per se. And that is the issue with Katie Hopkins. I deplore her public persona and what she does with it, but I don't know her personally so I don't hate her. All the people who say they hate her probably don't really, but they can't see past her words.
Strange behavior and money seem to be strange bedfellows now...
Yes. Far too much of it about. I'd rather remain poor.
I hope you do not. I hope you laugh every day of your life!
How did you know I laugh? That's classified information! :))
"She suddenly sounds enthused by the thought that she could be so inspirational. It’s as if she’s forgotten that the emotions that were galvanised were because everyone despised her for being so glib. “Maybe you’ll start to get a bit more liberal,” I say."
has this person's 15 minutes not passed yet? don't get me wrong, she can spew all the venom she wants, but should we put her on tv and in newspapers and effectively condone her? does she have medically diagnosed epilepsy? i didn't know that. but then the tabloid/awful tv are even more guilty of using her.