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, and asks Jon Ronson Most people will do anything to avoid being hated,but Katie Hopkins seems to elope frantically towards hatred. Take the 18 days of her life beginning on 29 March. She started with a series of tweets mocking depression: “UK has seen a 500% growth in anti-depressants since 1991. Like being bullied, being depressed is a fashionable thing to be… The final passport to self-obsession. A week later, and she moved on to dementia: “1 in 4 hospital beds are taken up by someone with dementia. The National Hotel Service.”Ten days after that,like a spree killer growing increasingly frenzied, she provoked an international incident. “reveal me bodies floating in water I still don’t care.” This is how her 17 April column for the Sun approximately migrants began. Migrants were “a plague of feral (Savage; wild) humans”, or turning British towns into “festering sores”. And then: “obtain no mistake,these migrants are like cockroaches… They are built to survive a nuclear bomb. She suggested drilling holes in the bottom of their boats.
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Source: theguardian.com