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We should use another term for “red flag” (derogatory), as in “aspect of something or someone that warns you before you engage.”
Maybe “black flag”? Fascists use black a lot, and mythological sea pirates used it as well.
Of course black isn’t always the color of fascism, since Anarchists (who aren’t the armchair kind), and some Communist parties use the color in their flags. But red is also used by fascists sometimes and we don’t complain.
this is just a suggestion, but there’s still some problems. like, there’s already too many bad things associated with black in our languages. I don’t know if this would throw even more gasoline into the fire of racism.
I think red flags are fine as they are. Red is the primary colour for caution, warnings, danger alerts etc in our societies because it really catches your attention and has an energetic presence. Something similar to how blue and green are calming colours, red is all about fire, action and attention. I think it’s fair enough.
Yeah, it was a bad take. I agree with you.
I like the “That’s a red flag (not the good kind)” joke. When you use it in mixed company it makes people ask themselves what the good kind of red flag is.
it wouldn’t work because the colloquialism “red flag” refers to warning flags, not national or party flags and a red warning flag near universally means danger, which is the point
Brown flag. Brown is the color of nazism after all. Though also the color of soil, which is a based material. Hmmh maybe cyan flag, it sounds like cyanide and I don’t like that shade of blue.
What about navy blue? it’s the color of NATO, the color blue of United States’ flag, and the color of European Union.
come to think of it, the Fascist International is blue and the Communist International is red.
our world is a fucked up game of Red vs. Blue.
I mean blue is also a religious color associated with the virgin mary and also widespread in sahelian cultures due indigo and all that.