(03-11-2020 11:00 AM)mrbig Wrote:  

(03-11-2020 09:19 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  You've never heard the term "Young Turk" for a young ideologue?

No, I haven't.

(03-11-2020 09:19 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  You don't know why someone would associate the political left with the color red? Hint: it's that way in every other country and has been for well over a century -- and it was that way in this country too until 2000 or so. The accidental American reversal of the term is an extremely recent (and unfortunate, from the the point of view of historical literacy) phenomenon.

Wikipedia has background on both of these topics.

I associate Red/Blue with electoral maps in the US. I'm too young to immediately associate red with communism. I get it now, but at the time I read the initial comment and Tanq's followup pun, I was just confused. I give Tanq a B+. Not the kind of thing that would make me laugh, but a clever effort.

You are too young to have heard of Red Square? the Red scare? pinkos? Never seen this movie?

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