Benevolent hegemony language still infantilizes and racializes the colonized.

Evidence

“Benevolent hegemony” is a reworking of the white man’s burden and is based on the notion that the United States knows best what is in the interests of developing nations. While the rhetoric is no longer blatantly racist in neocon and realist/liberal circles, its assumptions that people in developing nations are incapable of self-rule or of change from within minus imperial intervention has been part of a bipartisan consensus for a while. Such an attitude still infantilizes and therefore racializes those who disagree with the imperial agenda. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 483

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the infantilization charge Kumar levies in ch8 against British liberals; also connects to the reader’s claim 27 framing of natives-unready-for-democracy. — connects to: Racialization infantilizes the colonized and scars their language — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2498; The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Racialization infantilizes the colonized and scars their language #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2498
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #expands (0.75)
• Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism. #exemplifies (0.72)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #complicates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421