Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized

Evidence

If you criticize the colonialism that drives the most peaceable populations to despair, M. Mannoni will explain to you that after all, the ones responsible are not the colonialist whites but the colonized Madagascans. Damn it all, they took the whites for gods and expected of them everything one expects of the divinity! — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161

Categorization

• XREF: Victim-blaming mechanism via psychology — the colonized’s own expectation of godlike behavior makes them responsible, because whites are forced into a role. Echoes later in readings on Muslims blamed for provoking Western securitization. — connects to: The race-as-emergency-explanation framework licensed mass colonial massacres; Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other.; Language’s irreducible privacy, rooted in mortality, fuels colonial rage at the colonized — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 567 (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods (similarity 0.90)
• The race-as-emergency-explanation framework licensed mass colonial massacres (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-colonial revolt gets dismissed as neurotic madness rather than political action (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.79)
• Co-opting indigenous cosmology makes colonial rule sacred and rebellion sacrilegious (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (similarity 0.79)
• Colonizers use the colonized’s own spirituality to deny them material claims (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial observers excused native rage but condemned European cold-blooded violence as primary (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial violence was driven by officials’ fantasies and anticipatory fears. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods #exemplifies (0.85) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 163
• Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive #exemplifies (0.82)