Colonial privilege let Europeans smuggle arms past checkpoints and mocked natives aloud
Evidence
The Europeans have not contented themselves with carrying medications and men in their cars. They also carry arms. Automatic pistols, cases of grenades, have thus been able to pass through all road-blocks, as Europeans are never searched carefully. It has even happened that, when a European’s car has been searched, the driver, to avoid being molested, has explained the arms by saying he wanted to be ready to “smash the Arabs.” Such an attitude delights the highway police, and this “anti-native” solidarity is frequently toasted in the nearest bistro. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 540
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the theme of colonial privilege/unexamined passage in the ‘Dying colonialism’ thesis — how colonial structures blind even those who betray them. — connects to: Colonial privilege operated through sanctioned refusal to witness rather than surveillance; Colonial settlers’ attention was selective, not panoptic, and oriented to Europe; Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized
- SEED: An essay angle: how systems of privilege can be exploited internally by those who oppose them — the racial profiling that protects saboteurs.
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Broader Connections
- Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized
#exemplifies(0.65) - Colonial privilege operated through sanctioned refusal to witness rather than surveillance
#exemplifies(0.60) - Colonial settlers’ attention was selective, not panoptic, and oriented to Europe
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