goose quoted Direct Action by David Graeber
Direct Action: An Ethnography offers a lengthy, traditional anthropological account of anarchist organizing efforts, with …
"The problem with the clown concept," one [member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Clown Bloc in Philadelphia] later explained at a DAN meeting, "turned out to be that most Americans do not think of clowns as funny. They think of them as scary. On the other hand, most Americans think the idea of someone beating up a clown is very funny."
— Direct Action by David Graeber (Page 507)