I think the word you're looking for is "irony". Alphax was making the ironic observation that an overwhelming number of Wikipedians are more concerned with consensus than with quality.
Maybe, but there are also those of us who believe that in the long run reaching consensus is the way to achieve quality. In fact, reaching consensus and reaching an NPOV in many ways go hand in hand, and NPOV is a "non-negotiable" qualitative measure.
Of course, I'm not sure the majority of Wikipedians care that much about consensus. In fact, I'd say the majority of vocal Wikipedians don't even know what consensus means (or intentionally abuse the term). When conflict rolls around it's more often solved by voting and other forms of the majority forcing its opinion on the minority (such as that enacted by the three revert rule), rather than being solved through compromise and consensus decision-making.