Katie Hopkins, whom you commissioned at The Sun, described people fleeing this horror as cockroaches. https://twitter.com/stigabell/status/983090071795617795">https://twitter.com/stigabell...

Words matter. Of course they do. Hungary just handed a huge majority to a government running almost exclusively on an anti-migrant platform.

I hate to be Captain Basic here but if you keep framing people who are in mortal peril as subhuman, then voters and many other members of the general public are eventually going to see and treat them as such.

For those unaware of what I’m taking about:

“Katie Hopkins& #39; migrant & #39;cockroaches& #39; column resembles pro-genocide propaganda, says the UN” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/katie-hopkins-migrant-cockroaches-column-resembles-pro-genocide-propaganda-says-the-un-10201959.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p...

“UN High Commissioner says tabloid coverage of immigration is causing direct loss of life in the Mediterranean” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/katie-hopkins-migrant-cockroaches-column-resembles-pro-genocide-propaganda-says-the-un-10201959.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p...