Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts

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 (#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; Rulers used foreign mercenaries to suppress rebellious subjects; Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (+13 more)

Related

• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.88)
• World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.86)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial officials blamed elite ambitions rather than taxation for the tax revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial troops faced a forced choice between joining insurgents or dying (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• Rulers used foreign mercenaries to suppress rebellious subjects #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonized peoples’ revolts in Africa intensified France’s interwar racial conservatism #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial troops faced a forced choice between joining insurgents or dying #complicates (0.60)