There’s a YouTube channel called “Clown World” (AKA Noxious YT) that’s a daily compilation channel presenting brief clips from a right-of-center perspective. Most of them are worth watching, informative, sometimes appalling (in the eye-opening sense), and often very funny.
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For several months, the site has particularly targeted fatiguers – the out-of-control black Kens and Karens who seem to exist solely to make life miserable for everybody else. Which is fine – it’s one of the healthier developments of the mid-2020s that people now feel free to criticize when they see something that deserves criticism, despite race, nationality, or background.
Except that there exist clear lines as to what’s acceptable in this kind of commentary. Which, simply put, is that you don’t go over the line into abject racism. We won’t debate what that actually is or isn’t at this time – everybody knows it when they see it.
Unfortunately, Clown World went over that line yesterday by featuring nearly a complete clip from Patriot Front US. For those of you lucky enough not to have encountered it, Patriot Front is a flat-out, no bones white supremacist organization founded about ten years ago. There’s no room for debate as to what it is. The uniform (yep – they got ‘em) appears to be a combination of Hitler’s brownshirts (tan-colored military pants and caps) and Il Duce’s blackshirts (black tees). They also like masks. To top it off, their logo features a fasces that would have looked right at home in Mussolini’s Italy.
Their rhetoric is a combination of everyday observations concerning racial friction that would surprise nobody and the type of white supremacist bilge that the group has become infamous for. These outfits have long ago learned how to manipulate language. It’s one of the few reasons (along with being financed by the left) that they remain in existence.
The left has, needless to say, turned the Patriot Front into a brush to tar the entire American center-right by way of the “Alt Right” hoax. Jake Tapper and the SPLC, can serve as examples among the rest of the usual suspects.
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Which brings us to the question: what is it doing there? Clown World has had no white power reputation – no more than what coming forward as a conservative gets you, anyway. Is this an error, a change of stance, an open turn to the dark side? It could be argued that it was included as an example of what not to do, a kind of warning, but there’s nothing at all to indicate any such thing — merely a TikTok logo, which may mean something and may not, according to the eye of the beholder. The footage is otherwise simply plopped in the middle of the roll with no comment or warning. So what are the viewers to think?
What I think is that it’s not a good look. In fact, it’s about as bad as you can get in the current climate. If it is in fact intended to target TikTok, then the point has to be made. Otherwise, Clown World ends up owning it. And everybody knows what the left does with this kind of material. The SPLC has made an entire industry out of it. They utilize it not only to tear down the OP, but also everybody associated with him, similar to him, or who has even, through no decision of his own, ever appeared on the channel. It’s no secret and no mystery.
We’re in the middle of a critical election campaign in which the left is starving for material like this. They have nothing else going for them. They have no issues. Their funding has been decimated. Their candidates are a menagerie of loons, fanatics, Islamists, and geriatrics. All they have left is to wave the rubber Nazi in the voters’ faces.
So why hand them this? Why give them this ammunition at the exact moment they need it? As Talleyrand said back when I was a kid, “It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.” Whoever runs Clown World is best advised to make a clean breast of it, delete that video, and refrain from doing it again. Go forth and sin no more.
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Image: Noxious YT