Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other

Evidence

Unable to stand up to all the demands, the white man sloughs off his responsibilities. I have a name for this procedure: the racial distribution of guilt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon coins ‘racial distribution of guilt’ as a named mechanism — exactly the kind of conceptual tool the reader needs for their psychoanalytic analysis.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized; Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts; Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (+11 more)

Related

• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.93)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.92)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial officials blamed elite ambitions rather than taxation for the tax revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial guilt is a feeling of nonexistence, not inferiority (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority (similarity 0.80)
• World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.79)