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, or asks Jon Ronson Most people will achieve anything to avoid being hated,but Katie Hopkins seems to dash 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. “expose me bodies floating in water… I still dont care.” This is how her 17 April column for the Sun about migrants began. Migrants were “a plague of feral (Savage; wild) humans”, or turning British towns into “festering sores”. And then: “Make no mistake,these migrants are like cockroaches They are built to outlive a nuclear bomb.” She suggested drilling holes in the bottom of their boats.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com