Should controversial speakers like Katie get a platform? The venue says it's purely a comedy show
A Stamford arts venue is facing backlash after booking controversial far-right commentator Katie Hopkins, widely condemned for her radical views on ethnic minorities and PC culture.
She was permanently banned from Twitter in 2020 for breaching the platform’s hate speech policies, though continues to be active on her Instagram and YouTube channels – which have a combined half a million followers. The Stamford Corn Exchange has also defended its decision to book Hopkins, saying it was the best selling show at the venue this week, alongside their Cinderella pantomime, and that is because the show is “pure comedy and nothing about her opinions at all.”A spokesperson for the venue said: “We are a receiving house theatre, and we are wholly self-funding charity.
“What one person finds funny another might not, and some may even find it objectionable. We have many shows a year that some of our patrons may regard as diverse, such as burlesque shows, stand up comedians, political satirists, psychic mediums, adult pantomime etc. “When we were approached by a long standing agent to put on this show, who we have worked with for 13 years and has never brought us a poor standard show, and has always delivered exactly what the biography of a production has been advertised we had no concerns that the show will be anything other than the Comedy show promised.
“Katie Hopkins has many times stood accused of displaying views that have been described by critics as Islamophobic, racist, classist, and misogynistic. Katie Hopkins urged her followers to support a petition welcoming her to Stamford amid controversy of her booking at the Corn Exchange. The petition has since been deleted. | Photo: InstagramKatie Hopkins is most accurately described as a right-wing political commentator and media personality. She has built a large base of followers over the years with a series of controversial and outspoken opinions on the world’s biggest topics, but has faed widespread condemnation on more than one occasion.
After a truck was driven into crowds in Nice, France in July 2016, she said Islam “disgusts” her but assured people that she wasn’t Islamaphobic. This came not long before she called Sadiq Khan the “Muslim Mayor of Londonistan”
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