# clown world
## English
### Alternative forms

* 🤡🌏 (emoji)

### Etymology

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"), a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

clown world (plural clown worlds)
* (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, 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.
* (figurative) A crazy world or environment.
** 2000 October 24, ., “Chumley is a big fat idiot (part 2)”, in rec.arts.bodyart‎ (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, 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, 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.
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown,‎ world.
** 2003, Donald McManus, No Kidding!: Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theatre‎, 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, 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.

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### See also

* globohomo
* multiculti
* Swedistan

### References

* ↑ Scott F. Aikin & Robert B. Talisse, Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life, unnumbered page
* ↑ Gabriel Weimann & Ari Ben Am, "Digital Dog Whistles: The New Online Language of Extremism", International Journal of Security Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2020), page 18
* ↑ Ashley Peckford, "Right Wing Extremism in a Video Game Community?: A Qualitative Content Analysis Exploring the Discourse of the Reddit GamerGate Community r/KotakuInAction", A Closer Look in Unusual Times: Criminological Perspectives from Crim 862, June 2020, page 73
* ↑ Dan Collen, “Honk Honk” Was An Antisemitic Meme Long Before The Convoy Started Using It, 1 March, 2022, Antihate.ca