Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized

Evidence

The National Liberation Front, at the time when the people were undergoing the most massive assaults of colonialism, did not hesitate to prohibit certain forms of action and constantly to remind the fighting units of the international laws of war. In a war of liberation, the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without “barbarity.” The European nation that practices torture is a blighted nation, unfaithful to its history. The underdeveloped nation that practices torture thereby confirms its nature, plays the role of an underdeveloped people. If it does not wish to be morally condemned by the “Western nations,” an underdeveloped nation is obliged to practice fair play, even while its adversary ventures, with a clear conscience, into the unlimited exploration of new means of terror. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373; Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65; Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (+20 more)

Related

• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.85)
• Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial administrations routinely respond to insurgency with indiscriminate arrests that radicalize the innocent (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.82)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror #exemplifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373