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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX Columnist laments having to walk "two or three blocks" in Paris without seeing a white person
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/08/racist-daily-mail-columnist-fox-friends-laments-le-pen-losing-loss-europe/216325
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)and now I'm sorry I have.
She's a columnist for The Daily Mail, not Fox, and she's quite a piece of work. She's viciously anti-immigrant; she's been sued successfully for libel; and she's a big fan of Dolt 45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)unfortunately.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Basically the UK's version of Ann Coulter. Maybe not quite as unhinged, but pretty outrageous.
WoonTars
(694 posts)...
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Yes, a far-right neo-fascist would have been better than the Centrist.
Gee, where have I heard THAT before?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)angrychair
(8,692 posts)Just had friends that were in France for several days within the last year and they had a wonderful time and a good experience interacting with the French people, they were in Paris as well as less than tourist areas around France.
OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)UK Apprentice. There's not a redeeming feature in her character.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)dalton99a
(81,445 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Apparently, we also have no-go zones here in Holland but I'm not actually aware of any of them.
I suspect there are a few places I wouldn't want to be at 2am in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. Nothing to do with race or religion. Just places you don't to be at that time.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)Were reached via Metro. I didn't have anything like Katie's experience. I felt extremely safe there, even at the Christmas markets.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)No racist assumption there, is there?
haele
(12,646 posts)The one time my car was stolen - in San Diego, it was a young white joyrider and his friends. (1/2 a gallon of gas left in the tank didn't get them very far, and they came to a halt in front of a police substation parking lot, so there was plenty of video...)
The three times over 57 years a home of mine been broken into, it was young white kids.
General harassment (cat-calls, people looking for a fight, bullies) well, that's been pretty mixed across the races and genders.
So, I would venture to suggest this person is a snowflake. No courage whatsoever. Probably a bully or "mean girl" type, that shatters under any sort of pressure.
Haele
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)She is so disgusting that the UN High Commissioner of Refugees issued a statement condemning her characterization of migrants as cockroaches, vermin, etc.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-uns-statement-on-katie-hopkins-cockroaches-column-about-immigrations-full-text-10202351.html
..."GENEVA (24 April 2015) After decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion, and in the wake of a recent article in the Sun newspaper calling migrants cockroaches, the UN Human Rights Chief on Friday urged the U.K. authorities, media and regulatory bodies to take steps to curb incitement to hatred by British tabloid newspapers, in line with the countrys obligations under national and international law.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein also called on all European countries to take a firmer line on racism and xenophobia which he said under the guise of freedom of expression, are being allowed to feed a vicious cycle of vilification, intolerance and politicization of migrants, as well as of marginalized European minorities such as the Roma.
This is not only sapping compassion for the thousands of people fleeing conflict, human rights violations and economic deprivation who are drowning in the Mediterranean. The nasty underbelly of racism that is characterizing the migration debate in an increasing number of EU countries, has skewed the EU response to the crisis, which as we see in the results of the EU Council deliberations yesterday focuses on deterrence and on preventing movement at all costs, risks making the crisis even worse, and could sadly result in further massive loss of life.
An article by a Sun columnist on 17 April began with the words Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care. Elsewhere in the article she described migrants as a plague of feral humans, compared them to a novovirus and said some British towns were festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers shelling out benefits like Monopoly money.
The Sun columnist also advocated using gunboats to stop migrants, threatening them with violence, and said drilling a few holes in the bottom of anything suspiciously resembling a boat would be a good idea too.
In language very similar to that employed by Rwandas Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide, the columnist said make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. Leading figures in both Rwandan media organizations were later convicted by an international tribunal of public incitement to commit genocide.".....(more at link)
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)1. The Louvre
2. The Eiffel Tower
3. Avenue des Champs-Élysées
4. White People
5. Notre Dame
Seems legit.
mainer
(12,022 posts)Whenever there's some crazy-ass woman going on an anti-Muslim or anti-Obama rant on Youtube, she always seems to be a blonde.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Maybe it's been just my experience, but all the blondes that I have known who had permanent blonde roots were liberals or no less than moderates. I am sure there are exceptions, I just never met one.