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Down with parties making orange their official color. If you know
your history, orange also represents a ruthless racist group that is
worse than the KKK.
—No NDP Until they change their team colors.
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.
45 Comments
The Dutch?
Orange revolution in The Ukraine?
Anita Bryant?
The Hanoverians? aka William the
Orange who stole the crown of the U.K.
from King James of the Stuart house?
William the Orange’s descendants?
Who were also the opponents of the
Jacobites, who tried to restore the
crowns to the Stuart house?
That’s what I am guessing.
OP- so let me get this strait. You are making a voting decision on the color of a political party. You sir are a fucking Idiot…happy voting.
And red is the colour of stalinist “socialism”….so your point is….?
Yeah, lets avoid everything that has the slightest connection to something bad in history.
That’s not stupid at all…
I hafta PEE!!!!
So where does that leave Reds ?
And Green is the colour of money, which is the root of all evil, if I know my misquotations. And blue is sad. That’s it. I’m not voting.
Let’s not forget our beloved RED & white Canadian flag. Indeed, happy voting.
So you’re saying that if the NDP changes their color, you’ll vote for them? So you like their policies, then? But you refuse to vote for them because they USE THE COLOR ORANGE. Holy shit, how pathetic can you get, to let a particlar color in the rainbow determine who you vote for! If that’s how you make important decisions in life, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
And what racist group are you referring to in your bitch, the Orange Order in N.I?
Yeah, that’s definitely bullshit.
THAT’S IT!!!! As President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pumpkins, I must protest your slur on the colour orange. Dex is our King, all bow to Dex, the Biggest Pumpkin of All.
So you should immediately stop every orange vehicle you see and make the racist shit re-paint. oh, and don’t forget Home Depot. Damn racist DIY-selling fuckers. The Edmonton Oilers better get that Orange changed to grey.
The tangerines and clementines of the world are shivering with fear.
I have an orange couch. Rasicst can kiss my ass.
I heard some tanorexic hipsters protesting earlier that this thread is “prejudice” against them. Not one brunette amongst the bunch.
ha ha anita bryant and those innocent citrus fruit varietes
You’re talking about objects that
are orange. I think that it’s more
about major groups and organizations
specifically political groups that have
their main color as orange.
It is more common than you think for
orange banners and brutally racist
political groups to be synonymous. And,
perhaps OP is one of the victims of one of
these racist groups, and political groups and
organizations bearing orange banners reminds
him or her of the racist groups to which he or
she was a victim.
It sounds somewhat like “don’t fly the
confederate flag” because it’s offensive to
black people, because they’re reminded of
the slavery towards blacks. OP is likely of a
minority race also.
Anybody who can understand complex ideas
can look at it in that point of view. You’re
really the stupid ones, geesh.
Other examples in which orange would be
offensive is wearing it on St. Patrick’s Day in
Ireland. If you know your Irish history,
wearing orange on that day is taboo in
Ireland, because it was a group that they call
“Orangers” that dealt them a brutally band
hand, and it’s a significant part of their history.
Many of you Canadians don’t know why green
is the color to be worn on that day, and what
it really means.
And……
Even in our own province, the town of Truro
often identifies themselves with the color
orange, and is very cruel to some minority
groups of which they don’t approve. They’re
the most racist town in Nova Scotia, besides
Halifax, but Halifax doesn’t count because of
the massive population difference. There’s
more of a racist population density in Truro.
I am ashamed to say that I lived in that area,
but I’ve seen what people there do to minority
groups, but they are more subtle about their
racism because, one of their best cops is of a
minority race. Plus, they try to hide it because
they want people to come to Truro and spend
their money on Truro without knowing the real
spirit of the town.
Orange is more commonly worn by groups with
negative doctrines than positive. so OP will
probably ignore any group with that color. It’s
not about orange objects, the color as a whole,
and it doesn’t really sound so stupid if you
actually try to look at it in a different view.
It sounds like the whole “don’t fly the
confederate flag” thing, and political
correctness bit all over again.
I know, it’s a long one, but it’s a
different take on what I think this is all
about.
Phew, what a barf H.
Stop perpetuating the idea that colours automatically carry negative connotations and we’ll all be fine.
Chances are they used the color orange because ->
Its bright
It stands out
Draws attention to the eye
hmmmm…..
For fuck’s sake, get off your goddamn high horse analyzing the significance of the colour orange. Other than you, OP, who really gives a sweet shit?
Agreed
Then again, gays had to steal the entire rainbow.
Ahaha Dino, are you a Demitri Martin fan?
unnecessary bells….
I haven’t read all the comments above, but I’m convinced OP is hello.
I say outlaw ALL colours.
Fizz: yes! I was a fan of his before he even became big. One quote I love:
“I can’t really wear rainbows anymore without people thinking I’m gay. So now when I wear a rainbow flag on my backpack I write underneath ‘Not Gay’. But I guess underneath that ‘But Supportive’.” LOL!!
PS: Bro Tim, I’m not prepared to live in Pleasantville, sorry.
I am falling in love with Dino more every day!
A long time Demitri Martin fan, all I have to say is…
“When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws. Only catapults.”
Aw! I think I’m blushing!
“The thing about glitter is, if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on you forever. Because glitter doesn’t go away…
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.”
I loves Dino too – she’s one good dino egg.
Fizzz!!!!! HAHAHA that’s my all time favourite line! Aww, TTFN, thanks. *blush*
So if you put that much effort analyzing the negative connotations of orange, is your home fully following feng shui? You really need to have the green in the south (healing) yellow in the west (to bring good luck) and red in the east (to promote good chi). Now that’s obsessive.
A snapshot of orange courtesy of Wiki:
Orange is energy, enthusiasm, ‘get-it-done’ attitude, and balance. It typically symbolizes Hinduism, Buddhism, happiness, energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, arrogance, gaudiness, over-emotion, warning, danger, autumn, desire, Sagittarius (star sign), and September. Orange has less intensity or aggression than red and is calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow. Orange is symbolic of the Royal family of the Netherlands. As such, in the Netherlands, Orange symbolizes royalty, and as William of Orange was the Calvinist colour, orange symbolizes protestantism, particularly in Ireland (Orange Order).
It would be entirely useful, for the purpose of this thread, if the OP would chime in and tell us to whom they are referring. As it stands, this bitch is pointless.
Three, its hello.
And what the fuck is about Orange not rhyming with anything? Most every other word has a rhyme. Perhaps orange has something to hide. Perhaps it thinks it’s better than everyone else, that it’s got to set itself apart from all the other words. I’m not fucking voting for a word that doesn’t rhyme with any other word. Fucking separatist, individualistic, non-rhyming fucktards.
Bawhaw…orange is like that emo kid that nobody wants to play with during recess because it doesn’t rhyme.
Yes but they taste good and in juice form with some vodka, well isn’t that a little piece of Heaven.
Dino I ain’t a Pleasantville kind of guy. Just trying to show the idiocy of the OPs statement. First orange (IRA I guess), then red (for the Commies), black (that’s for funerals), white (for weddings, almost as bad as funerals, LOL JK), and so on and so on and so on.
Hahah yeah I know I’m just kidding.
Maybe that’s why Boss Hog always wanted to get those Duke boys. Them and their damn General Lee spreading their messages of hate! Way to go, Roscoe Pi-co-trane, defender of the minoritiese!
Maybe the NDP wants something good to be represented by orange? Maybe they’re upset that in the past it’s been known to be representative of racist groups? Let’s take back orange for the side of good!
Actually, orange is the official color of Halloween and Halloween is awesome. Go fuck yourself OP.