The column was interesting and entertaining, as usual, until I came to a screeching halt at the end. The “Knockout game” was mythical? Read “White Girl Bleed a Lot” or “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry” by Colin Flaherty.
I. Cecil did not call the “knockout game” mythical.
II. Colin Flaherty is a well-known race baiter.
link to Cecil’s column
Link to MPSIMS thread on this subject
Clowns have actually been reported in all states and several other countries. but perhaps Cecil wrote the column before all those reports had come in.
The simple explanation is this: The people doing this kind of thing have absolutely no imagination. All they can do is duplicate what they see other people doing. One person wandered out in a clown costume, and everyone else follows suit because they’re too fing pathetic to come up with an original thought to entertain themselves. That’s what happens when people spend every waking moment having hand sex with their fing smartphones instead of actually exploring the world (I know, I overgeneralize). We’ve seen this with planking, twerking, dumping a bucket of ice water over your head, etc. The clown fad will pass, to be replaced with the next “I-gotta-do-that-too-because-I-think-it-makes-me-look-cool-even-though-it-actually-makes-me-look-like-a-f***ing-douchebag” fad.
Did you read Cecil’s column?
Just because clown sightings have been reported, doesn’t mean they actually happened.
How exactly do you “impersonate” a clown? It seems to me that the old saw about how to identify ducks would fit clowns even better. Someone who is dressed like a clown is a clown.
A lot of this is down to social media. Threats are regularly being made on social media, both by people pretending to be clowns and people who want to attack clowns.
A small but significant subset of these people are making videos of themselves, either dressed as clowns or attacking clowns; I suspect that most, if not all, of these 'clips showing ‘attacks on clowns’ are set-ups, with friends or accomplices taking the part of the beaten-up clown.
A very small number of robberies have been carried out by people in clown masks; these probably would have happened anyway, and are unconnected with the ‘evil clown’ trend.
Number of actual evil clowns luring kids into woods is probably zero.
On social media you don’t even need to get dressed up; you could use a stock photo if you prefer. That’s what the news media are doing.
Yes I did read it and I never said clowns had been sighted in all states. What I was doing was responding to this from Cecil’s column:
And the people who are reporting these “sightings” are big fat liars.
It’s mostly kids on social media who want to create a scare at their school or whatever.
And then the social media furor causes a few people to actually get some clown makeup and scare other people.
Yeah, just so they can say they clpwned everybody…
Despite Cecil’s averral that it is not illegal to dress in public as a clown that isn’t true everywhere.
It’s now illegal to dress like a clown in public in a Mississippi county.
I seem to recall a couple of other local ordinances to this effect.
This can’t be constitutional.
The Law allows a good deal more leeway for something that’s temporary, has a good reason, and doesn’t hurt anyone seriously. Basically, it’s the same as the “shouting ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater” exception.
So kids are scared to death of clowns but they play that Gears of War video game with the zombies and the burly ass biker dude as the hero…? OK then…
Great article, they forgot to mention Burning Man. Clown noses are some kind of statement about the ridiculousness of society. The people who attend Burning Man and the other copycat festivals which occur every month seemingly nowadays wear clown noses sometimes. Its like a rave culture thing… So they are probably to blame for some of the sightings… Theyre probably on peyote or something too, so…
They quite happily play video games with creepy clowns too, but actually seeing clowns or zombies or burly ass biker dudes leering at them from a twilight copse is quite another matter.
I suspect that Creepy Clowns are subconscious projections of Donald Trump,
much as Godzilla in Japan is a subconscious projection of the Atomic Bomb.
I’d rather Donald Trump be the projection of creepy clowns.
As Master Sean O’Lochlainn remarked to Lord Darcy, “Your lordship should realize that, for many purposes, the best symbol for a thing is the thing itself.”