Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views

Evidence

I continued to have discussions with my Moslem friends. Little by little, I was beginning to understand the meaning of the armed struggle and its necessity. But I expressed doubts as to the value of the armed action that was being carried on. Having no other source of information than the local press, we were subjected daily to the colonialist propaganda that made the fellagha out to be extremists and highway bandits. We partly accepted these views, but it could not be gainsaid that the horrors of the repression fully counterbalanced the “horrors” of the maquisards. Between the two we were looking for a third way out. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Propaganda created unrealistic expectations about easily exploiting the African interior; Pro-revolution settlers had to disguise their allegiance even from the resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 524; Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (+5 more)

Related

• Pro-revolution settlers had to disguise their allegiance even from the resistance (similarity 0.83)
• Propaganda created unrealistic expectations about easily exploiting the African interior (similarity 0.81)
• A southern newspaper shaped regional ideology toward expansionist settler colonialism. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized civilians relied on defiant inner conviction against traumatizing French press (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial lobby propaganda created unrealistic expectations about African wealth #exemplifies (0.60)
• Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule #corroborates (0.50)
• Subaltern studies read colonial documents against the grain to expose their rhetorical distortions #expands (0.50)
• Dutch colonial historiography has downplayed the political force of affect #corroborates (0.50)