Agency requires real choice, which colonialism systematically denies

Evidence

The “Oriental” Other cannot be granted an active agency, for to do so is in effect to argue for the Other’s colonizability. Subtracting this agency from our calculation would then have to lead us back to the forces that underlie colonialism and Orientalism, forces embedded in the European structures of thought that cannot be allowed to conscript the Other in its genealogy and narrative. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 44 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556; Granting the colonized active agency paradoxically argues for their colonizability — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 44; Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Granting the colonized active agency paradoxically argues for their colonizability #complicates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 44