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?

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    3 months ago

    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

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      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!

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    Black has the most universal meaning of solidarity, seriousness, mourning, and formality across cultures and peoples.

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      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/

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      On the flip side, red is also commonly used to represent love and passion.

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      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 ☠️

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    Red is associated with social democracy, socialism, communism in most countries; almost only in the US is it the color of the conservative party.

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      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.

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      Just like most common standards, the US decided to go full ham and use their own.

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    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).