Someone make her stop.
Katie Hopkins has continued her campaign of targeting society’s most vulnerable, claiming today that “it is ridiculous to live in a country where we can put dogs to sleep but not people.”
In a Radio Times interview with Michael Buerk, Hopkins proposed that there should be vehicles, akin to ice-cream vans, that come to our houses in order to put our elderly relatives to sleep – like dogs.
It is not the first time this year that Hopkins, infamous for her provocative points of view, has used deeply dehumanising language to kick the weakest sections of society while they are down (mere months ago, she referred to immigrants escaping dire circumstances in the North and West Africa as ‘cockroaches’).
Speaking about the dystopian euthanasia-vans in her typically simpering tone, Hopkins said that “it would all be perfectly charming. They might even have a nice little tune they’d play. I mean this genuinely. I’m super-keen on euthanasia vans.”
As deplorable as it is for Hopkins to make jokes about culling our grandparents, it’s not purely this awful proposal that stands out. It’s the bit where she says “I mean this genuinely.” It’s important to remember that Hopkins does not believe a word out of her own mouth. She simply seeks to stir up hatred, as cynically targets the groups of people least able to fight back.
I rather admire the efficiency of Ebola. From a Malthusian and marketing perspective, it is beyond reproach.
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) October 8, 2014
Hopkins’s fool-proof formula for winning herself the attention of the media (and the support of the most despicable people on the Internet) involves biliously berating those in society least able to defend themselves. By targeting the working-class, the autistic, victims of bullying, the elderly and the immigrants, Hopkins is shaving off the parts of the society already marginalised by a deeper misfortune.
The timing of this latest tirade conveniently coincides with her new TV panel show next month on TLC called If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World. The premise of the show is that celebrities and comedians will be invited on to discuss and debate Hopkins’ controversial and contrived opinions.
Whether or not her opinions are smithereened by guests far smarter than Hopkins is unlikely to affect her continued celebrity. After all, Holly Willoughby humiliated her on her live TV two years ago and it didn’t make a blind bit of difference.
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