Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity

Evidence

M. Mannoni makes his diagnosis: “The Madagascan does not even try to imagine such a situation of abandonment… He desires neither personal autonomy nor free responsibility.” — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 156 (#expands, via linked claim)

I am talking about millions of men in whom fear has been cunningly instilled, who have been taught to have an inferiority complex, to tremble, kneel, despair, and behave like flunkeys. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authority pre-emptively silences the colonized’s own testimony; Colonial discourse recasts Western self-government as a capacity Orientals lack; Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 156 (+8 more)

Related

• Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom (similarity 0.89)
• Western projects justify themselves by framing colonized peoples as incapable of self-improvement. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized (similarity 0.81)
• Locke classed colonized peoples with children and idiots for lacking abstract reason (similarity 0.80)
• Mannoni claimed colonized peoples unconsciously desired their own colonization (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial powers justified intervention by portraying colonized subjects as incapable of self-understanding (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial discourse recasts Western self-government as a capacity Orientals lack (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom #expands (0.98) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 156
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized #expands (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59