[stan_rogers]

In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson (cold/bluish) and scarlet (warm/orangish) when it actually matters, and the default "red" is somewhere in the middle, probably because we added orange to the lexicon.

[stooliepidgin]

You're conflating a range of colors with a single color.

"In the middle" is red. Red is red. It's not red-orange. It's not red-blue.

[svachalek]

This reminds me a lot of "I don't have an accent! YOU have an accent!"