'swarms' 'cockroaches' Oh It's All So Racist, Isn't It?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11784422/Katie-Hopkins-questioned-by-police-for-inciting-racial-hatred-with-migrants-column.html

/// Hopkins' piece was reported to police by Peter Herbert, the Chair Society of Black Lawyers. He earlier claimed it included “some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years”. ///

Now we all know that very title isn't in the least a teeny bit racist, don't we?

[Svejk]

Race hustler's gotta hustle, I suppose.

[youngmafbog]

In this country now you are only allowed an opinion if it fits in exactly with the right-on brigade.

Plod has been infiltrated with liberal academics running it rather than good coppers with common sense.

Going to hell in a handcart? We're pretty much there.

[dave50]

I don't think anyone knows what the word 'racist' means anymore, ie "A person who believes that a particular race is superior to another". She never said or implied that and that goes for most of those who have been accused of this over used word in the past. She might have been offensive to some but that is all and that is not a crime. Well it wasn't but it may well be in the not too distant future by the way things are going.

[andy-hughes]

I would make it my personal business to ignore anything and everything Katie Hopkins says.

She has parlayed being provocative into a highly paid career - getting upset over her views only encourages her.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// She has parlayed being provocative into a highly paid career - getting upset over her views only encourages her. ///

Oh so we shouldn't get upset then because someone gets arrested on such a trivial accusation, by a group who have their own axe to grind.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Question Author

andy-hughes

/// She has parlayed being provocative into a highly paid career - getting upset over her views only encourages her. ///

Oh so we shouldn't get upset then because someone gets arrested on such a trivial accusation, by a group who have their own axe to grind. //

I think the debate about the seriousness of the accusation is a side issue, but as far as Ms. Hopkins being arrested for her ludicrous posturing - I imagine she will see it as a badge of honour!

Were she someone who has been wrongly accused of making racial inferences (and as I said, that is a separate issue), then I would be the first to leap to her defence.

However, if you make our highly paid living out of making scattergun contentious observations in national newspapers, then you must accept approbation, ridicule, and where applicable, arrest, as occupational hazards of your chosen career path.

[-Talbot-]

These days say you're English and you get thrown in jail.

[andy-hughes]

Are you adding to the debate Talbot - or just typing what is going through your mind as you sit?

[-Talbot-]

I was adding to this, andy.

In this country now you are only allowed an opinion if it fits in exactly with the right-on brigade.



Say you're English these days and you get arrested and thrown in jail.

[david small]

She speaks her mind. If you don't like what she says, ignore her. Or you could wail, and scweam and scweam. Throw your deeply offended dollies out of your pram, making sure you get maximum attention of course. Pathetic.

[Mamyalynne]

I ignore her whenever possible,she doesn't outrage me ,simply makes me shudder.


Talbot,just had to watch that video again with your mention of 'These days....'.

I love Stewart Lee.

[bazwillrun]

@david small

exactly...but as we know theres plenty of professional "I want to be offended" types these days

as for paul the 'erbert, that chip must be getting mighty heavy to keep lugging around all the time

[jim360]

//He earlier claimed it included “some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years”. //

Apparently this is the first time he's read a Katie Hopkins opinion article...

[ummmm]

lol @ Bob.

[trt]

## I love Stewart Lee. ##

Don't tell me you find him funny mamya!!!!!!