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Katie Hopkins' Award

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  • #32
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,189 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058050265/2/#post112408893

    From yesterday.

    Ah, right, I must have missed that, sorry mod who had to move the post!


  • #33
    KiKi III
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    The video has 3.5m views so far which, for a YouTuber, is pretty good going.

    Great marketing for him; if he spent £2-3k to get it set up, he'll more than make it back.

    Meanwhile, Katie felt so comfortable thinking she was in the presence of fellow racists made a series of comments that were really shocking and will make it hard for any UK TV show, newspaper or radio show to justify giving her a platform.

    I honestly thought she was a bit like Piers; a blowhard, saying provocative things to get attention but at the heart of it all probably didn't really mean them. How wrong I was.


  • #34
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    What is she famous for? I looked her up and see that she was a contestant on a reality show called the Apprentice. Is that it?


  • #35
    KiKi III
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    jester77 wrote: »
    What is she famous for? I looked her up and see that she was a contestant on a reality show called the Apprentice. Is that it?

    Racism.


  • #36
    micosoft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭micosoft


    Don't forget Justin Barrett's trip to London to talk about Abortion....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Pk1d0ob1w


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  • #37
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭joe40


    KiKi III wrote: »
    The video has 3.5m views so far which, for a YouTuber, is pretty good going.

    Great marketing for him; if he spent £2-3k to get it set up, he'll more than make it back.

    Meanwhile, Katie felt so comfortable thinking she was in the presence of fellow racists made a series of comments that were really shocking and will make it hard for any UK TV show, newspaper or radio show to justify giving her a platform.

    I honestly thought she was a bit like Piers; a blowhard, saying provocative things to get attention but at the heart of it all probably didn't really mean them. How wrong I was.

    That's an important point. There was no effort to sanitise her remarks in any way. This pure unadulterated bile, and good for people to see.
    No self respecting media platform could still give her a voice.


  • #38
    ghost of ireland past
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 228 ✭✭ghost of ireland past


    We don't want more of this.
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/culprits-of-acid-attack-on-waterford-teens-will-only-get-juvenile-cautions-dpp-informs-victims-38914210.html

    The DPP refuses to prosecute, even though a young man's life was destroyed. I don't think that's what ordinary people want.

    Perhaps Katie has a point. I notice no-one here is willing to debate her ideas.


  • #39
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    My favourite Katie Hopkins moment was when she said she didn't like children named after flowers or locations.

    Two of her own kids are "Poppy" and "India"...


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ghost of ireland past wrote: »
    We don't want more of this.
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/culprits-of-acid-attack-on-waterford-teens-will-only-get-juvenile-cautions-dpp-informs-victims-38914210.html

    The DPP refuses to prosecute, even though a young man's life was destroyed. I don't think that's what ordinary people want.

    Perhaps Katie has a point. I notice no-one here is willing to debate her ideas.

    Thats because she doesn't have any, well she might, but usually they would only appeal to pond scum to put it politely.


  • #41
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I started watching that video the other day. After about a minute I decided I just didn't care. I don't care about her opinions but I don't feel the need to see anyone 'embarrass' her either. She's in the position she is not because she has a lot of fans, but because people need someone to hate. If everyone who claim to hate her just changed the channel when she appeared her career would soon be over.

    Anyone who thinks she gives a shite about being called a cunt is sadly mistaken. She got a free holiday and more exposure out of this. If you really hate her treat her like the non-entity she is.


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  • #42
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    biko wrote: »
    My favourite Katie Hopkins moment was when she said she didn't like children named after flowers or locations.

    Two of her own kids are "Poppy" and "India"...
    That was likely deliberate though.


  • #43
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Gotta feel bad for her kids though. They've been doomed from the second they were conceived!


  • #44
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,561 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I love Katie Hopkins! She tells it as it is and none of the pc bollix I despise. Known her, she’ll likely see the funny side in this. I know it’s fashionable to hate and ridicule her


  • #45
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Permabanned from Twitter https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53111295

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #46
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    About time. Without that platform, she has nothing and will fade back into well-deserved obscurity, just like that Milo Yiannopoulos non-entity.


  • #47
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,088 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    About time. Without that platform, she has nothing and will fade back into well-deserved obscurity, just like that Milo Yiannopoulos non-entity.

    This is it. These people don't have a marketable skill apart from sh1t stirring. There might be a right wing think tank who will give her some money to talk about her martyrdom. But twitter is probably her main source of income. It's her tweets that get picked up and get her name around.

    Bye Katie.


  • #48
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Yes !!!
    Another person with the wrong opinions silenced!!!


  • #49
    world class wreckin’ cru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭world class wreckin’ cru


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    Yes !!!
    Another person with the wrong opinions silenced!!!

    Correct. Racism and bigotry is wrong. Well done.


  • #50
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    Nervous Laugh wrote: »
    Correct. Racism and bigotry is wrong. Well done.

    Post some of her racist and bigotted tweets, I'll wait, the definition of racism nowadays is so broad it could be anything ...


  • #51
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,108 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    road_high wrote: »
    I love Katie Hopkins! She tells it as it is and none of the pc bollix I despise. Known her, she’ll likely see the funny side in this. I know it’s fashionable to hate and ridicule her

    But she's a hateful and ridiculous person...

    I don't do Twitter, so rarely see whatever she posts. But no harm getting her off the thing. She's not Gemma Doherty kinds of cnut, but she's definitely a cnut.


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  • #52
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    Post some of her racist and bigotted tweets, I'll wait, the definition of racism nowadays is so broad it could be anything ...

    This post would be seen as an example of racism (in some people’s opinion).


  • #53
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    But she's a hateful and ridiculous person...

    I don't do Twitter, so rarely see whatever she posts. But no harm getting her off the thing. She's not Gemma Doherty kinds of cnut, but she's definitely a cnut.

    You rarely see what she posts but think it is right that she was banned. You do realise your post is hate speech. Should you be banned from all social media?


  • #54
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    Post some of her racist and bigotted tweets, I'll wait, the definition of racism nowadays is so broad it could be anything ...

    Her tweets are all gone. Here are a few examples though, which all the racists on here will no doubt deny were made with racist intent...

    "Dear black people. If your lives matter why do you stab and shoot each other so much"

    "Racial profiling is a good thing, call me racist. I don't care... it has lost all meaning"

    "Today is #whiteoutwednesday I will shortly be posting a picture of my arse, thank you"


  • #55
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Hego Damask wrote: »
    Yes !!!
    Another person with the wrong opinions silenced!!!

    Nobody is stopping her talk the ****e she talks, they're not allowing her to use their platform to do so, as they're perfectly entitled to.

    Nothing stopping you subscribing to her newsletters or website


  • #56
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,108 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    jackboy wrote: »
    You rarely see what she posts but think it is right that she was banned. You do realise your post is hate speech. Should you be banned from all social media?

    I don't need to follow her, I've seen enough of her tripe to know she's a cnut. And calling someone a cnut is not hate speech...

    "Hate speech is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation"."


  • #57
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I don't need to follow her, I've seen enough of her tripe to know she's a cnut. And calling someone a cnut is not hate speech...

    "Hate speech is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation"."

    So clearly by that definition what you said is hate speech.


  • #58
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,108 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    jackboy wrote: »
    So clearly by that definition what you said is hate speech.

    Really now? Did I attack her sexual orientation, religion, race or sex? Again, calling someone a cnut, or a bollix, or any other general term like that is not hate speech. If I said "that white catholic lesbian cnut", yes, hate speech. But I didn't.


  • #59
    jackboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Really now? Did I attack her sexual orientation, religion, race or sex? Again, calling someone a cnut, or a bollix, or any other general term like that is not hate speech. If I said "that white catholic lesbian cnut", yes, hate speech. But I didn't.

    You did attack her sex using that word. There is no doubt what you said is hate speech. You really need to be on really high ground before calling for people to be banned.


  • #60
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,108 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    jackboy wrote: »
    You did attack her sex using that word. There is no doubt what you said is hate speech. You really need to be on really high ground before calling for people to be banned.

    I was going to do a big reply showing how you're completely wrong, but I just couldn't be arsed. Off with you if you think calling someone a cnut is hate speech, you're wrong, but I don't think any amount of proof as to how wrong you are will change your mind.

    Enjoy life.


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  • #61
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    jackboy wrote: »
    You did attack her sex using that word. There is no doubt what you said is hate speech. You really need to be on really high ground before calling for people to be banned.


    Calling somebody a c*nt is not f*cking hate speech, are you acually serious.. .. .. .. ..


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