clown world

English

Etymology

The alt-right sense emerged from The Honkler, a version of Pepe the Frog meme featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. That meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH") as a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

Noun

clown world (plural clown worlds)

1. (slang, derogatory, alt-right) The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.
   • 2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be‎^[1], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     […] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.

   • 2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page:

     "Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?"

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered page:

     But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clown world.
2. (figurative) A crazy world or environment.
   • 2000 October 24, ., “Chumley is a big fat idiot (part 2)”, in rec.arts.bodyart‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 14 January 2022:

     > negating the self centered aspect of your
     > comment, it was through the resulting disagreement that this realization was
     > able to come to fruition. In all honesty I'm exceptionally happy with how
     > things turned out and I truly hope the best for her family.
     
     Your crazy clown world has nothing to do with reality.

   • 2018 August 15, Christopher Othen, Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency‎^[3], Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     The /pol/ or politically incorrect board at 4chan became an alt-right clown world.

   • 2021 August 3, Zach Vorhies, Kent Heckenlively, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship‎^[4], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 64:

     The government was so top-heavy and bureaucratic that it created a circus show, a clown world where nothing worked as it was expected. It wasn't simply that there was waste and corruption everywhere. The most corrupted part of that life ...

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clown world.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown,‎ world.
   • 2003, Donald McManus, No Kidding!: Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theatre‎^[5], page 33:

     While he did not see these experiments as anti-textual, the most significant contribution to the clown world from the Copeau years was the development of modern French mime.

   • 2013, Jon Davison, Clown: Readings in Theatre Practice‎^[6], page 29:

     This is a clown world, the openly theatrical world of the stage-clown, and not a world of masters and servants, despite the origin of the role being partly in imitation of a recognisable social type.

   • 2015, Slava Polunin, edited by David Bridel and Ezra Lebank, Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters, page 49:

     He said that my essence was grotesque, that I would be a part of the clown world naturally, that I could organically belong to a circus or any other environment, because the grotesque is not limited to or contained in one genre – it has no boundaries.

Translations

clown world

• Russian: мир клоунов (mir klounov), клоунский мир (klounskij mir)

See also

• globohomo
• multiculti
• Swedistan