Meaning of clown world | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.
   derogatory, slang
2. A crazy world or environment.
   figuratively
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown, world.

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Examples

“[…] 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.”

“"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?"”

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

“> 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.”

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

“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 ...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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