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Then it wouldn't be a very good red filter.

At first blush this appears to be an exceedingly stupid question, but actually while there is in fact such a thing as a stupid question (trust me on this), the advance of science is basically a history of something that "couldn't happen" (according to the currently accepted laws of science) happening, and someone having to come up with a better theory to account for it.

In actual practice, a lot of "red" filters do pass a significant amount of light in the blue region of the spectrum. The amount that gets through is based on the precise hue and saturation of the filter. If it lets through a lot of red and a lot of blue but almost no green, then it's a violet/purpleish red filter. If it lets through a lot of red and a lot of green and blue (but less than the amount of red), it's a pink filter. And so on.

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