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Q&A: Are Clowns No More Than Insulting Racial Caricatures of the Irish?
Question by Bono: Are clowns no more than insulting racial caricatures of the Irish?
Like you know how blackface is an insulting grotesque caricature of blacks? Are clowns the same thing- grotesque caricatures of the Irish- with their uberpale painted white skin and bright red hair? Ronald *Mc*Donald? Am I the only one who’s making this connection?
Best answer:
Answer by BD
i dont see the connection
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Only you would BONO. I wish you’d die in a ditch or something.
I have seen clowns with all hair colors and make-up schemes.
I think they were invented to cheer people up, not insult anyone.
Does the real Bono know you use his name?
No. There are a wide variety of clown costumes. Not all clowns have red hair and not all irish people have red hair. That’s like saying the hamburgler is a representation and insult to burglars everywhere.
Yes….the white-faced, red-haired buffoonish idiotic clown is a definite take-off of the drunken, slovenly, pale-faced, red-haired Irish idiots who have immigrated to, and ruined, this once fine country.
yes you are
Yes, you are the only one making the connection.
Clowns represent liminality, “. . . an abstracted period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed – a situation which can lead to new perspectives.” Certainly you are on to something because surely, of all European blood, the Irish are the champions of liminality and intellectual ascension above mediocrity, convention and banality.
Yes I think you are! I think you have some issues you need to address! Good Luck with the Clown Thing!
You’ve said it. Clowns are nothing but insulting.
OK, you caught us…. How much is it going to cost us!