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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 10:11 AM Jul 2013

British TV personality supports judging and socially rejecting children based on their names.



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APPRENTICE star Katie Hopkins has fuelled the fire over her This Morning rant linking children’s names to their class.

The reality TV star took to Twitter to continue her tirade attacking ginger babies, obese parents and kids with names like Rhiannan, Sky, Dwayne, Chesney and Tanya.

Her Twitter rant on kids’ names she deemed socially inferior to her own added insults to ginger babies for good measure.

She said: “I stand by every word. Thank you to all teachers, parents, mums that are also tired of the lowest common denominator.”








http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5000588/Katie-Hopkins-I-stand-by-every-word.html
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British TV personality supports judging and socially rejecting children based on their names. (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Jul 2013 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author CurtEastPoint Jul 2013 #1
So, you discriminate on looks while condemning her for discriminating on names. We see. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2013 #18
What a disgusting attitude that woman has. I pity those around her. IrishAyes Jul 2013 #2
Monarchist nineteen50 Jul 2013 #6
That explains why she hates proles. IrishAyes Jul 2013 #23
The funniest part Courtesy Flush Jul 2013 #3
Wonder what this darling would make of your DU handle? Plucketeer Jul 2013 #22
As an Army brat and later Army wife, IrishAyes Jul 2013 #25
Their very own Michelle Bachman! IrishAyes Jul 2013 #24
Prince Harry is a "ginger." Hope he calls her out...LOL.. monmouth3 Jul 2013 #4
A lot of them question Harry's lineage. IrishAyes Jul 2013 #26
He is almost a clone of his "dad" and you can tell he's half Irish. He has personality...n/t monmouth3 Jul 2013 #32
Betcha she hates "Yanks" as well... AsahinaKimi Jul 2013 #5
I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't like Yanks, Frenchies, Huns (sorry, I mean Germans) SwissTony Jul 2013 #9
And all that when the Irish have such a fond nickname for Lizzie the Hun. IrishAyes Jul 2013 #27
Oh my God. Why is this woman being given any air time? SwissTony Jul 2013 #7
She's not afraid of embarrassing herself on TV, Quantess Jul 2013 #8
she's like their Ann Coulter Skittles Jul 2013 #33
I thought she was a satirist - deliberately pushing buttons about class radhika Jul 2013 #10
Winnah of the MOST SHALLOW PERSON OF THE YEAR award. 1monster Jul 2013 #11
She sounds like the kind of person . . . Jack Rabbit Jul 2013 #12
How shallow she is. To judge children on a name they didn't even pick at birth. southernyankeebelle Jul 2013 #13
Does she actually have children? Did some poor sap marry this fool? Tikki Jul 2013 #14
She has daughters named "India" and "Poppy" Courtesy Flush Jul 2013 #17
What an insignificant toad. secondvariety Jul 2013 #15
I lost a shitload of IQ points watching this. AtheistCrusader Jul 2013 #16
Wow. WTF. I'd swear this was a Monty Python skit if I didn't know better. DanTex Jul 2013 #19
Trust me. The Brits know how to treat a snob.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #20
They certainly cut loose when Thatcher the Milk Snatcher croaked, didn't they? IrishAyes Jul 2013 #28
Right now this woman holds that title... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #31
This woman is off her rocker Politicalboi Jul 2013 #21
People who live in glass houses.... IrishAyes Jul 2013 #29
The Wikipedia entry for her is very entertaining. madaboutharry Jul 2013 #30
Yep. T_i_B Aug 2013 #36
She's an ultra-Thatcherite right-whinger Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2013 #34
Why yes dear..... DeSwiss Jul 2013 #35

Response to Courtesy Flush (Original post)

Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
3. The funniest part
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 10:37 AM
Jul 2013

Around 5:56 she rails against geographical names, then it's pointed out that her own child is named India. She says there's no geographic association with the name. Staggering.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
22. Wonder what this darling would make of your DU handle?
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:54 PM
Jul 2013

Courtesy Flush is what someone should do with her. Actually, I immediately had another Un-PC title come to mind for her. I can't say it here (or much anywhere else anymore!), but when I was in the service, we had a particular style of dress hat that was affectionately referred to as a **** cap. Courtesy Flush - yeah that would be great. No one deserves to have to put up with her stench.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
26. A lot of them question Harry's lineage.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 04:10 PM
Jul 2013

It's the only reason I can almost stand him on a very good day, because he might be half Irish. I'd like him fine if he stood with Sinn Fein. Which won't happen, but it's a pleasant thought.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
9. I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't like Yanks, Frenchies, Huns (sorry, I mean Germans)
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:25 AM
Jul 2013

brown people, black people...and Asians!!!!

God, she doesn't even like gingers.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
27. And all that when the Irish have such a fond nickname for Lizzie the Hun.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 04:22 PM
Jul 2013

Yeah, they'll holler "up the monarchy!" and hate Germans when the House of Windsor isn't exactly Anglo Saxon itself. But you'd go nuts waiting for them to make a lick of sense.

Here's the jingle we learned to skip rope to as kids:

Up the long ladder
Down the short rope
To hell with King Billy
And God save the pope

It was the only time well-reared youngsters were allowed to say to hell with anyone. But many of the Free Irish haven't forgotten the Irish holocaust that stretched over a century when GB regularly swept our island clean of youngsters from the age of 10 up and hauled them off to the British Indies for 'work opportunities'. Or a once-secret official document of more recent vintage proclaiming, "At last we shall be free of the scourge of the Irish in Ireland!" It was systematic, deliberate, long term genocide.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
7. Oh my God. Why is this woman being given any air time?
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:21 AM
Jul 2013

I wonder what she thinks about people called "Katie".

And "Piers" is Latin for "parasite"? I haven't done Latin for 45 years, but my first thought was that Piers was a form of Peter. Google translate tells me the L->E for Piers is Piers and E->L is Petrus. Who'd a thunk it?

And she's right about names coming up before magistrates. That's because there are probably millions more Davids and Marys than there are Indias and Poppys. I expect even Tyler is something of a rarity.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
8. She's not afraid of embarrassing herself on TV,
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:24 AM
Jul 2013

not afraid of looking like an idiot. I suppose she thinks that makes her witty and charming, or something. What a nitwit.

radhika

(1,008 posts)
10. I thought she was a satirist - deliberately pushing buttons about class
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:42 AM
Jul 2013

Is it possible she is needling society?

It's so bizarre, I'm confused.

1monster

(11,012 posts)
11. Winnah of the MOST SHALLOW PERSON OF THE YEAR award.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:45 AM
Jul 2013

She blew past the competitors as if they were standing still.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
12. She sounds like the kind of person . . .
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:47 AM
Jul 2013

. . . who would turn the King's desire to marry an American divorcee into a constitutional crisis.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
13. How shallow she is. To judge children on a name they didn't even pick at birth.
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:58 AM
Jul 2013

I wouldn't want my child to play with her kids if she is that snotty.

Tikki

(14,559 posts)
14. Does she actually have children? Did some poor sap marry this fool?
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:10 PM
Jul 2013

Wonder if katie is nick for katydid.


Tikki...a name that should send her over the moon.

Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
17. She has daughters named "India" and "Poppy"
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:55 PM
Jul 2013

Listen to the whole thing. She actually criticizes names based on geography and on physical objects, yet won't concede that her own children fit into those categories.

EDIT: Just found this...

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
28. They certainly cut loose when Thatcher the Milk Snatcher croaked, didn't they?
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 04:27 PM
Jul 2013

Now maybe Katydid can become the most hated person in England.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
21. This woman is off her rocker
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:51 PM
Jul 2013

She's blaming the wrong persons. It's the dumb parents who name their kids stupid names sometimes, and that isn't good for the kid when they attend school. We have misspelling of names of how we used to spell them. I think it's ridiculous. Children pick up on the easiest way to make fun of someone, and your name is fair game to them.

I have a friend who's kid is in college. One mother got mad at the teacher because she pronounced her daughters name. The name was Le-a. The teacher called her Lea. The mother said her name was Le"dash"a. Stupid.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
29. People who live in glass houses....
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 04:30 PM
Jul 2013

And yes, I meant you as well. By your lights, that should go for usernames as well?????

T_i_B

(14,746 posts)
36. Yep.
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 07:45 AM
Aug 2013

Attention seeking professional troll. The fact that she earns a living like this shows how low the UK media has sunk.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
35. Why yes dear.....
Sun Jul 7, 2013, 09:38 AM
Jul 2013

...we can easily see how perfect you are.



...as well as the superior vantage point you have for looking down your nose at others. Seeing how it is only slightly smaller than Mt. Everest.



- If she were skinnier and with a sewer-mouth like she's got, I'd say she was the English version of Ann Coulter.....

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