Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another.

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)

For the specialist in colonial affairs, veterans and the “developed” natives are the commandos who are entrusted with destroying the cultural resistance of a colonized country. The regions are accordingly classified in terms of the number of developed “active units,” in other words, agents of erosion of the national culture that they contain. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized; Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts; Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (+8 more)

Related

• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.94)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.94)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.90)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture (similarity 0.84)
• World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial officials blamed elite ambitions rather than taxation for the tax revolt (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture #exemplifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244