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[–]Yayme 35 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 0 fun36 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's crazy!

Also, kind-of a heads up, I guess "clown world" is a term used by antisemitic people. There was a huge discussion about it on the old GC, and to be honest I thought it was just someone being a drama queen and looking for an excuse to police others language.

Then we get here, where the anti-Semites are rampant, and lo and behold, "Clown World" is everywhere!

[–]FediNetizen 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Eh it's more like the OK sign where the original usage wasn't at all racist. Whenever someone says something retarded on twitter people always reply with clown gifs and make references to clowns like that. Nothing anti-semitic about that.

It does seem like racists have their own take on it, but the original meaning (you are a clown = you are a fucking moron, clown world = the world is being run by morons) is still widely used.

[–]our_team_is_winning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

something retarded

is that word allowed in Newspeak?

[–]DimDroog 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hope so.

I like the word.