Katie Hopkins accused of race hate by linking Pakistani men with sex abuse
Katie Hopkins, the Sun columnist and businesswoman, has been reported to the police for possible race hate crimes after being accused by a Labour MP of equating men of Pakistani origin with child abusers.
A complaint from Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, claims that the reality TV star has associated the Pakistani flag with the sexual abuse of minors in a series of Twitter messages.
It follows a prolonged row between Hopkins and Danczuk over his decision to attend the raising of a Pakistani flag over the local town hall to mark National Pakistan Day on 23 March....
The father of the main prosecution witness in the child sex grooming scandal has accused Hopkins of stoking racial divisions for her own purposes....
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/29/katie-hopkins-reported-police-race-hate-rochdale-pakistani-sex-abuse
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Ms Hopkins) is a simple-minded, publicity-craving woman who speaks before she thinks.
"Even taking out the Holocaust references and the Miliband family connection to the Holocaust, why does this woman need to be quite so personally offensive and abusive?"
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Following the criticism, Ms Hopkins went on to tweet on Friday: “Jews and Gays love me. Get over it.
“The Scots and Palestinians aren’t so keen. I give you that.”
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/132958/outrage-over-claim-ed-miliband-should-put-his-wife-oven%E2%80%99
No-one loves her. At least Clarkson had the proper knowledge about cars for his programme, and was able to be witty without being racist etc. if he tried. Hopkins has nothing but bile.
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Sad to say, it's local to me. 
To simply portray it as a matter of race or religion is not accurate. However, being factually accurate has never been Hopkin's strong point.
The main UK forum thread about it is here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10886485
And this article about the likes of Hopkins really does need to be posted whenever she rears her ugly head.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/owen-jones-on-the-big-benefits-row-the-hopkinsisation-of-political-discourse-9106227.html
The producers justified booking her on the basis that she got a response; I suggested that the same could be said about a live execution, but that probably wasn't an argument in its favour. And so producers will keep ringing her agent so long as people keep agreeing to “debate” with her, and the Hopkinsisation of political discourse will continue.
And then there was Edwina Currie, best known for a scandal involving eggs and boasting about her escapades with a former Prime Minister. Hopkins has moved in on Currie territory, and so an arms race has begun. On the Channel 5 programme on Monday, Currie was put on the same panel as Jack Monroe, a brilliant writer and inspirational campaigner with first-hand experience of poverty and food banks. She began confronting Currie with facts, the one thing Currie seemed to be bereft of. And so Currie's comeback was - wait for it - to bring up Monroe's dead grandfather.
The likes of Hopkins and Currie are a fascinating aspect of modern culture, with their outrageous politically incorrect opinions they have for money, to paraphrase Stewart Lee on Jeremy Clarkson. Going on TV is not something I hugely enjoy, to be brutally honest - it's just a means to get a point across - but for the professional troll, nothing beats the limelight, even if everybody is booing. But I feel genuine pity for intelligent right-wingers out there (and yes, they do exist!). They're being replaced by pantomime villains. Personally, I relish taking someone on who knows their facts. But ratings are ratings, and so the circus goes on.
