Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger

Evidence

The Europeans who, as a result of certain military actions on the part of the Algerian National Army in favor of the struggle of the Algerian people, had soft-pedaled their race prejudice and their insolence, recovered their old arrogance, their traditional contempt. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 191 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Having a gun, being a member of the National Army of Liberation, is the only chance the Algerian still has of giving a meaning to his death. Life under the domination has long been devoid of meaning… .” … Such statements, when they are made by members of the Algerian government, are not the expression of an error of judgment or of a “to-the-bitter-end” attitude. They are the plain recognition of the truth. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 81 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Armed struggle restores meaning to Algerian lives that colonial domination emptied — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 81; Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 191; Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else (+12 more)

Related

• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else (similarity 0.87)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.86)
• Armed struggle restores meaning to Algerian lives that colonial domination emptied (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system (similarity 0.86)
• Each Algerian generation grows harder rather than wearier against colonialism (similarity 0.85)
• Armed struggle restored meaning to Algerian life and death (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial settlers’ deepest fear was expulsion, not political loss (similarity 0.83)
• European settlers’ aggressive demands for minority rights dissolved when assured of belonging (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian doctors were reintegrated into the people when they joined the revolution (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian revolutionary leaders weighed three distinct political and moral concerns against retaliation. (similarity 0.81)
• Both the old paternalist and the coercive forms of colonial Algeria were dying. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian nationhood became an embodied reality inside each new Algerian (similarity 0.81)
• A settler’s street riot in Algiers compelled France’s government to abandon negotiations (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 191
• Armed struggle restores meaning to Algerian lives that colonial domination emptied #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 81
• Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else #expands (0.55)