Colonialism is a coherent system requiring cultural and epistemic violence, not merely bad colonists.

Evidence

Tempels approach to colonialism reflects what Jean Paul Sartre called “neocolonialist mystification,” the illusory thought that “there are some good colonists and some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of the latter that the situation of the colonies has deteriorated.” But colonialism, as Sartre pointed out, is first and foremost a coherent “system” with an inescapable inner logic, a system of economic exploitation that requires political domination, military oppression, cultural alienation and spiritual dehumanization via racism and all manners of intellectual epistemic violence, chief among them the philosophically and scientifically manufactured “hierarchy” of races and religions which justifies the ideology of “developing” or “uplifting the low races” via a civilizing mission. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 737

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Sartre’s ‘neocolonialist mystification’ and the systemic understanding of colonialism.

Related

• Colonialism operates as a total system, not a matter of individual colonist goodwill. (similarity 0.96)
• Economic dependence on property makes colonial doctors complicit in domination (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial ‘civilizing mission’ ideology negated African morality and rationality (similarity 0.82)
• Ideological critics charged Tempels with diverting attention from colonialism’s real harms (similarity 0.81)
• Questioning African intellect forced rethinking of colonial administration and mission methods. (similarity 0.81)
• Ethnophilosophy debates are tied to colonial ideology and contested concepts of philosophy (similarity 0.80)
• Tempels addressed Bantu Philosophy to colonizers seeking to Christianize Africans (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial knowledge required portraying subjects as mysterious rather than ordinary (similarity 0.80)
• Recovering an African philosophy that ignores colonial alienation serves the colonizer. (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels advocated benevolent colonialism without rejecting the colonial institution (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Colonization is fundamentally violence and plunder, not a civilizing mission (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism operates through objective role, not personal intention (similarity 0.79)
• Tempels reserved systematic philosophical formulation for Europeans only (similarity 0.79)
• Depriving colonized peoples of their own philosophy is the gravest colonial crime. (similarity 0.78)