Colonial rule is justified as a benefit to the colonized and the West

Evidence

Is it a good thing for these great nations—I admit their greatness—that this absolute government should be exercised by us? I think it is a good thing. I think that experience shows that they have got under it far better government than in the whole history of the world they ever had before, and which not only is a benefit to them, but is undoubtedly a benefit to the whole of the civilised West.… We are in Egypt not merely for the sake of the Egyptians, though we are there for their sake; we are there also for the sake of Europe at large. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 110

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘for their own sake’ paternalism prefigures the affirmative-action-as-burden rhetoric that later Islamophobia readings will take up. — connects to: Platform mission statements echo colonial law’s benevolent attitude toward the subjugated — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 338; Colonial extraction justified first contact through preemptive legal-religious claims — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 299
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 110