Comment on You live in Clown World when guys are using bathroom hand dryers
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoOh no, don’t tell me another innocent term has been captured by the far right??
In this case, using it in apolitical contexts might perhaps be a good thing, though?
Diluting its supposed significance…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
There’s a difference between Clown World and calling people clowns (unless you do it a lot, we’ll come back to that)
The “Clown World” communities are all about racist dog whistles and bitching about “social degeneration.” I don’t think it needs to be explained how that’s fascist adjacent. If it does you need to be reading much more in depth explanations in because you’re starting from the basics.
And, just an fyi, this is all specifically Nazi messaging once you’ve stripped away all the layers. Clowns specifically are used as a dog whistle for Jews/“the Jewish agenda” by a certain type of terminally online antisemite.