“Color Revolutions”

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Clarissa

May 30, 2021

A person who uses the expression “color revolutions*” is either a Putinoid troll or an unrepentant idiot who is unwittingly listening to Putinoid trolls.

On the other hand, if you’ve never heard this expression, congratulations, your information sources are free of this rot.

* The term is used by Putin’s propaganda to express contempt for pro-democracy movements in the post-Soviet space. These movements are of no consequence or interest to anybody outside of Eastern Europe, and that’s exactly how it should be. Let people figure out their own lives.

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4 responses to ““Color Revolutions””

David Bellamy

May 30, 2021

Context matters. I have always thought “color revolution” referred to the relatively rapid historical transition from mostly black and white photography to mostly color photography. Of course the process was more complicated, including the transition in the other direction a century or so earlier from color portraits to black and white ones, with the widespread switch from paintings to photographs.

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 30, 2021
  
  It’s gotten to the point where I have changed my lecture on the birth of modernism to avoid using this expression to refer to the phenomenon you mention.
  
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  1. David Bellamy
    
    May 30, 2021
    
    Interesting. From my academic field, I have no idea what “modernism” means. It is not a word we use, but if we did it would probably refer to “after Gödel”.
    
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cliff arroyo

May 31, 2021

“color revolutions”

I’m a tiny bit more nuanced. At one point it did refer to a real-ish thing (reported CIA involvement and/or attempted manipulation of popular uprisings) but the dunning use of the term by Putinites has successfully made it unusable and like ‘racist’ and ‘transphobic’ it is now mostly is a signal of bad faith and/or mental issues of the person using it.

Political discourse has been so degraded in the last 10 years that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to talk about anything of substance – which was, I guess, the whole point.

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