Julius Caesar was assassinated for wearing red boots. Barrack Obama was lambasted for wearing a tan suit. Purple is associated with royalty, white is associated with clergy, and gold is associated with superiority. Red and Blue have powerful meanings in America, and so does Green. Which colour is the most political in your opinion?
77% of national flags contain red.
…Which is a bit disturbing because it is generally used to refer to bloodshed or might in battle - partially in a “let’s honor the past” sort of way, but mostly in a “don’t fuck with us” sort of way.
Fun fact: the flag of Jamaica is the only country flag which has neither red, white or blue.
The old flag of Lybia fit that category as well.
During the Golden Age of Piracy, pirates would fly a red flag to communicate no quarter. That meant that if anyone decided to fight back would be killed because they were not taking prisoners.
Imagine being a miserable English sailor months from home, broke af, and hungry, when you’re out in the ocean about to head back and you see this pulling up:
☠️ TIME TO MOTHERFUCKIN DIE ☠️
On the flip side, red is also commonly used to represent love and passion.
Red. It is used and associated with countless movements, flags, banners, all across the political spectrum.
Red is associated with social democracy, socialism, communism in most countries; almost only in the US is it the color of the conservative party.
Just like most common standards, the US decided to go full ham and use their own.
Which was basically a coincidence of one close election night and the TV networks trying to act objective. Parties don’t have official colors in the U.S. and every network was using red, white, and blue for their maps. To use red for Democrats would have implied a connection to communism and white was obviously for states without results yet. So, they all, independently, chose blue for Democrats, red for Republicans, and white for states whose polls hadn’t closed.
Red for sure.
Purple is probably the only one that I’m aware of on your list where there’s a legit logic behind it, since dyes used to be harder to come by
Drag thinks maybe there’s a historical reason why white is associated with purity and black with sin, and it ain’t because of the price of dye.
EDIT: Drag just wants to talk about colours, not have to defend drag’s identity!
Drag? What do you mean?
This guy’s gimmick is to speak about himself in the third person. You can safely block him.
Holy shit it’s Mongo
Drag does not identify as a guy and drag does not use he/him/himself pronouns. Drag would appreciate not being so blatantly misgendered.
Why not just say I ? It doesn’t make sense to go 3rd person
Did you just assume drag’s person? /Jk
It doesn’t make sense to go 3rd person
It does if one wants to be really annoying.
Mongo only pawn in game of life
Drag’s pronouns are not about you. Drag apologises for the confusion.
Someone is taking the “I don’t use pronouns” thing to the most literal extreme.
That’s what makes me think (hope) it’s a troll. Easily the most obnoxious annoying person on lemmy (maybe minus hexbear psychos)
“I don’t feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.”
Drag is not going third person. Drag is using first person neopronouns. Drag is happy to teach you about grammar structures you’re unfamiliar with. Drag prefers drag’s pronouns over gender neutral pronouns like “I” because drag’s gender is not neutral.
In Japan, there are multiple first person pronouns depending on the speaker’s identity and indeed the specifics of their current social situation. Like watashi, boku, and ore. Drag is doing that.
Also in Japan, if someone refers to themself with their own name, that’s seen as childish or arrogant.
If your first person pronoun is the same as someone referring to you in third person, then you are referring to yourself in third person every time you refer to yourself in first person. And since the idea of a first person neopronoun is exceedingly rare, most people will only think of you as speaking in the third person.
People like you are the reason I used to be so right wing
I think you’re desperately seeking attention or a right wing troll because you’re the most annoying person on lemmy
It’s not misgendering if it happens before you let anyone know that, fucking dumbass.
Drag’s pronoun is in brackets in drag’s display name. Drag wonders why you choose to complain to other people about your own decision not to read the things on your screen.
Your gimmick doesn’t work, Drag. You’re even having tk say “Drag’s”, which is literally how third person possessive plurals work. Find another thing to draw attention.
Stupid AND a liar, no wonder you’re the way you are.
Black has the most universal meaning of solidarity, seriousness, mourning, and formality across cultures and peoples.
Japanese budhist monks use black for their clothes as it simbolizes purity, or as black being the most pure color. In very few instances, they may wear purple or gold, but that’s due status and a latter addition.
In a funeral, only the deceased would wear white, I don’t remember why though, but for a while wearing white was in bad taste.
Wearing all black is also common for the Catholic clergy, and for a long time most brides used black for their wedding dress: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2014/12/13/history-of-the-black-wedding-dress/
Probably purple because of how historically inaccessible it was
Not a single color, but in Chinese tradition there were five colors of equal political significance corresponding to the Wuxing cycle of changes—black, red, cyan, white, and yellow. Each dynasty was associated with a color (with other associated traits), and was expected to be followed by one of two other colors (depending on whether the succession would be orderly or revolutionary).
