Colonial dominion was justified as the natural right of those capable of ruling
Evidence
The Normans in occupying both England and Ireland were but fulfilling the work for which they were specially qualified and gifted… . They did not destroy the Irish people; they took the government of them merely, as the English have done in India, dispossessing the chiefs, changing the loose order of inheritance into an orderly succession, giving security to life and property, and enabling those who cared to be industrious to reap the fruits of their labours without fear of outrage and plunder. Their right to govern lay in their capability of governing and in the need of the Irish to be governed. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 244
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The ideology of governing capacity mirrors the ranking assumptions Robinson shows within European and later capitalist racial thought.
- DEFINE: Exemplifies how the colonial civilizing-mission rationale was formulated.
Related
- Colonial officials invented ideologies of racial superiority when confronted by evidence of native competence. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Colonial officials rationalized domination by claiming trusteeship over the colonized
#corroborates(0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1171