If you don't know who she is I will explain. Katie is mostly known as a very outspoken media columnist. She became well known after appearing in the UK show The Apprentice and afterwards became a columnist in The Sun, and then The Daily Mail. She has presented radio shows and been a guest on numerous television shows. Sometimes I find myself putting my hand over my mouth in shock at what she has said. Sometimes I find myself nodding along with what she is saying. She divides opinion, and is considered a controversial figure. She would tell you she is simply saying it how it is. I agree, though sometimes you can couch your words in a less confrontational way, but maybe that's how I am?
I like Katie Hopkins, and I admire her for speaking out when it's the fashion to be politically correct and careful you don't offend someone when you speak. Everyone is so afraid of being condemned in the media for accidentally saying something wrong. I mean, take for example the media coverage recently when MP Amber Rudd was defending another MP in a radio show. She accidentally called another MP 'coloured' rather than using the modern correct wording 'black'. The outcry in the media was a sight to behold. It was a slip of the tongue, and unfortunately you will still hear it being said, however much it is considered to be an offensive way of describing people. You do still get people being called 'white' though, and there is not the outcry this caused! If you want to know, the correct term is, for example, 'white of European descent'! People have had years of using these considered now incorrect words, and it is impossible to change that overnight. I think it is terribly wrong for people to be so afraid of using the wrong word, unless of course that word is used in a very offensive and demeaning way. It is all about re-education but Amber Rudd did say it accidentally. You would have thought the world had ended by the way she was vilified, and she had to make a public apology. Now I am all for an apology, and yes she is an MP and they should set a good example, but it was genuinely a slip of the tongue. I wouldn't want to be a 'public speaker' for anything. I dread to think what I would end up saying accidentally.
Anyway Katie Hopkins was widely criticised for some years, and is well known as being very outspoken. I think the public in general, and the media, took another look at what she says after the publicity when she underwent brain surgery to try and help her epilepsy. She spoke openly about why she was doing it, and about how the epilepsy had affected her life. It was then that I also took another look at Katie Hopkins. I still do not agree with everything she says, and I still feel she goes out of her way to be confrontational much of the time. But this is how she has made her name, and she has many admirers. Sometimes you need someone out there, in the public eye, to contradict the news. To say what many, many people are thinking, but are too afraid to say. To get it out there where people can discuss it, and she definitely promotes discussion. Arguments and condemnation frequently occur after her posts and articles. This is how she makes her money and sometimes I feel she is deliberately being provocative, when in fact she often has a good clear precise open comment to say. I wish she would tell it how it is in a different way, because I actually think more people would listen and more would agree. By being so controversial she alienates a lot of people. But I still admire her. I admire anyone who speaks out because it is so hard to do so now. Political correctness has gone mad, and so has righteous indignation. I think we have gone too far the opposite way from racism, ageism, discrimination, and so on. We need to get the balance right and start actually being sensible about what is right, instead of screaming out every time something is deemed incorrect. There are some journalists in the media who write about this but it's still too few and far between. Let's be sensible. let's be respectful, but please let's not go overboard!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins
https://www.hopkinsworld.com/
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/lets-calm-down-about-amber-rudds-coloured-gaffe/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5094791/A-Z-politically-correct-madness.html
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