I love purple. I put it on everything. I love purple flowers, i love Ube yams, I love purple colors in art, I love purple clothes, etc. Etc.
So why do I have to have my favorite color associated with these stupid monarchists? [Note: I know why, purple was an extremely expensive color so it became the color of royalty]. Yes, I know, its not like everything purple is associated with the monarchy, but i see it enough to the point that it just bugs me. I hate monarchs, and monarchists are some of the most idiotic and insufferable people I’ve ever met, and they all stole my color.
[I know I’m being melodramatic. I’m not actually super upset because…well what would I do about it? But I’m also jealous of comrades who have red as their favorite color, for obvious reasons]
As a fellow purple enjoyer i feel you. Kinda. In my country one of the reformists called it his colour and it’s most of the time associated with him now. Fortunately the monarchists aren’t intelligent enough to find out about the colour’s connection to themselves. Let’s hope we can reclaim it.
Me for the last three years, after a lifetime of loving how blue and yellow look together
I know in Spain the colour purple is associated with republicanism and the colour purple is on the republican Spanish flag
My favorite color is blue.
Guess which political factions use that as their color. 🫠
Cons…? ‘Christian Democrat’ ‘European People’s Party’ types
It’s because of the Phoenician they were looking for more murex which they obtain purple color from and eventually this led to empire; so they created first monopoly over purple and they sell it to Rome by saying color of the royalties. After the split up of the Roman empire, Byzantine empire continued this tradition and then Turks arrived at that time purple was getting cheap so it wasn’t scarce as it used to be. Turks said our holy color is yellow let’s change royalty color from purple to yellow.
Where do you see monarchists? I also love purple but I’ve never been accused of supporting monarchism. I’m in the US tho so we don’t get much information about the outside world here.
It’s a fun tid bit to say that purple was a rare dye so it got used by and associated with royalty. Because it was rare it’s also the least common colour on flags.
I don’t think people associate it with royalty anymore now that we can mass produce all kinds of colours though.
