Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized; Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted; Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial officials blamed reform failures on indigenous vanity rather than state abandonment (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism’s source is diffuse and often collaborative rather than solely external (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial officials blamed elite ambitions rather than taxation for the tax revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #qualifies (0.60)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #expands (0.60)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted #complicates (0.55)
• African colonized subjects used colonial courts for their own purposes #exemplifies (0.55)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country #expands (0.50)
• Colonized peoples read colonial vaccination as a tool of subjugation #exemplifies (0.50)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165