Algerian hierarchy ranked contempt downward from French to Arab

Evidence

Analysing the various degrees of disdain in Algeria, a pied noir journalist, Albert-Paul Lentin, observed how “the Frenchman despises the Spaniard, who despises the Italian, who despises the Maltese, who despises the Jew; all in turn despising the Arab.” In the Second World War, Pétain’s anti-Semitic regime repealed the Crémieux Decrees, and Jewish teachers and children alike were summarily flung out of European schools; the whole community was menaced with deportation to Nazi camps. Yet during all this time (so several Algerian Jews averred to the author), there was barely a breath of anti-Semitism from any Muslim quarter. By the 1950s the Algerian Jews were tugged in several directions; the least privileged tended still to identify themselves with the Muslims rather than the pieds noirs, and many were members of the Communist Party, while the wealthiest had developed distinctly Parisian orientations. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 171

Categorization

• XREF: The despising chain directly maps the reader’s ‘Savage War of Peace’ permutations—layered colonial hierarchy producing violently displaced enmities. — connects to: French rule in Algeria steadily degraded its administrators relative to the governed population; Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1262; Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim
• SEED: Potential essay: how a colonially-stacked ladder of contempt redirected resentment sideways and downward, delaying confrontation with the top.

Related

• French rule in Algeria steadily degraded its administrators relative to the governed population (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noir racism toward Algerians was rooted in indifference rather than overt hatred (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.79)
• Muslims and pieds noirs were separated by incompatible religious, cultural and economic orientations (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #complicates (0.40)