Citations:clown world

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) a crazy world or environment"

 * 2020, Barbara Amiel, Friends and Enemies: A Memoir, unnumbered page:
 * Never mind, I was great material for CBC's clown world of entertainment and variety.
 * 2020, Barbara Amiel, Friends and Enemies: A Memoir, unnumbered page:
 * Never mind, I was great material for CBC's clown world of entertainment and variety.

Noun: "(slang, derogatory, alt-right) the current, absurd state of global society, from the perspective of the alt-right movement"

 * 2018, Zachary Sobeck, "Americans are dreamers too", The Gettysburgian (Gettysburg College), 8 February 2018, page 7:
 * Indeed, with all the talk in Washington D.C. as to the fate of so-called "dreamers" who are, in fact, illegal aliens, it is easy to forget that the primary function of the United States government is to serve and facilitate the interests of Americans, not illegal alien foreign nationals. Congress is living in Clown World, and the government was even briefly shut down over illegal aliens.
 * 2018, Jamie Welch, "Political clubs consider the issues at Eisenhower Institute campus-wide policy debate", The Gettysburgian (Gettysburg College), 8 March 2018, page 2:
 * It is a Clown Word notion that Trump wants to nuke North Korea.
 * 2020, Scott F. Aikin & Robert B. Talisse, Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life, unnumbered page:
 * Pepe the Honkler typifies the troll's perspective on disagreement – arguing is pointless, as those with whom one disagrees are too far gone, they embody a "clown world."
 * 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?"
 * 2020, Lana, quoted in Christopher Charles, "(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube", dissertation submitted to the University of Central Florida", page 101:
 * We are all those gone before us, and the vision that they had for me is not the clown world I am looking at now. Without embracing the identity of your ancestors, you are lost rootless and empty—a perfect global citizen.
 * 2020, "ortharzeal", quoted in Carolyn Reichert, "Involuntary Celibates: An Exploratory Research of Incels", thesis submitted to Masaryk University, page 53:
 * [Site] user ortharzeal gave his opinion on how to help incels in a thread titled (sic) "Another incel rights project, but within clown world."
 * 2021, Thomas Frissen, Leen d'Haenens, & Michaël Opgenhaffenv, "Extreme Right and Mis/Disinformation", in The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism (eds. Howard Tumber & Silvio Waisbord), unnumbered page:
 * There is also the 'clown world meme', a derivative of Pepe which the extreme right uses to indicate that we live in an absurd, 'left-wing' 'clown world'.
 * 2021, anonymous, quoted in Daniel Craig Botha, "Bridging White Supremacist Discourse: An ethnography of the online world of the 'Alt-Right'", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 67:
 * I realized (((feminism))) wasn’t about gender equality at all, but preferential treatment for women. I then realized that pointing out that men objectively had it worse made people call me a sexist (incel wasn’t a term back then) and I first began to get a glimpse of the clown world.
 * 2021, Karen Kellock, Haze of the Latter Days, page 13:
 * Rules for clown world: Masks doesn't [sic] work, wear it. Vaccine doesn't work, take it.
 * 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.
 * 2021, Joan Remy, "Twilight", Valley Voice (Steamboat Springs, CO), April 2021, page 15:
 * The Cat in the Hat and Dumbo
 * Shouldn't be censored
 * In this "Clown World"
 * 2021, Rob Dunn, "Strange Concept", The Valley Peak (Columbia Valley, BC), 6 May 2021 - 12 May 2021, page 7:
 * I almost feel like we are living in a clown world. There is so much conflicting information around this pandemic but people are afraid to face up to what they see.
 * 2021, Michelle Malkin, "Endless wars = endless refugees", Santa Barbara News-Press, 22 August 2021, page C3:
 * This country has transmogrified before our eyes into an incorrigible Clown World.
 * 2022, Rob Dunn, "Robservations", The Valley Peak (Columbia Valley, BC), 6 January 2022 - 12 January 2022, page 3:
 * Transgender 'women' playing in women's sport? No thank you, not fair and will destroy women's sports. But no one has the cahones to stand up to that. What happened to women's rights? There are so many examples of the clown world we are now living in and no one seems to call any of it out.
 * 2022, Rob Dunn, "Robservations", The Valley Peak (Columbia Valley, BC), 6 January 2022 - 12 January 2022, page 3:
 * Transgender 'women' playing in women's sport? No thank you, not fair and will destroy women's sports. But no one has the cahones to stand up to that. What happened to women's rights? There are so many examples of the clown world we are now living in and no one seems to call any of it out.