Probably an unpopular opinion but I really don't understand the love Jack gets for suing Hopkins. All it really did was make a situation that was already bad for Hopkins a bit worse and speed up her inevitable financial difficulties coming to a head. Hopkins was already on her way out at the Mail as she'd cost them a fortune settling with the Mahmood family in 2016, with another separate libel case against the Mail pending well into 2017. She carried on working at LBC for several months after the Monroe verdict and might be there yet if it wasn't for her awful comments about the Manchester bombing. If she hadn't continued saying increasingly hateful things and being a total liability to her various media employers she might have been able to absorb the losses from Monroe's action. Hopkins did herself in, in terms of her mainstream media career- Jack had no impact at all on de-platforming her. Jack's case is only interesting because of the Twitter aspect, it hasn't made Hopkins any less hateful and I'm sorry but a mouthy racist living in a smaller house than they used to isn't much of a victory. The way Jack swaggers about like she's struck a blow against fascism is pathetic and I'm mystified as to why so many people seem to believe it.
I suspect a good chunk of her followers have absolutely no exposure to racism or poverty (or even being a bit tight at the end of the month) etc outside of what they read on Twitter, so they can buy into the clean cut myths Jack peddles and fully buy into her as a concept. So they think Katie Hopkins is a social ill that Jack toppled, when realistically most people just want to be able to feed and clothe their kids and couldn’t give a
duck. Most people aren’t even active on Twitter. Twitter is a really odd vacuum that’s managed to make a lot of people who are otherwise politically inactive & inactive in their communities feel like they’re doing a lot?
And I’m not doing her down as it was an achievement (ETA - and KH is clearly indefensible trash) & she’s bought some lovely furniture from it, and most importantly deplatforming works massively and helps slow down the #algorithm introducing hateful ideaology to ppl / bringing so many into hate communities online definitely, but the court case didn’t even result in her being kicked off Twitter (or did it? Happy to be corrected)
Sorry for the dead content, will hopefully be able to triangulate an office chair or something fun soon