Colonized elites also helped exploit their own people under colonial protection.

Evidence

Since colonized elites played a crucial part in exploiting their own people (even if they did so under the protection of the colonizer), it is too simplistic to assign all the blame to the colonizers. Thus, postcolonialism attempts to offer a more nuanced analysis of colonialism and its repercussions, particularly with respect to the ways in which the relationship between former colonizer and colonized continues to shape the realities of both groups in the contemporary world. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 259

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s existing tension between attributing platform power to external actors vs. complicity — parallel to ‘internal colonialism’ debates in the surveillance literature. — connects to: Newly assimilated colonized people become colonialisms most zealous defenders — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 220; The super-exploitation of African labor was the key to colonial elites’ liberation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 703

Broader Connections

• Newly assimilated colonized people become colonialisms most zealous defenders #corroborates (0.88) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 220
• The super-exploitation of African labor was the key to colonial elites’ liberation #complicates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 703