Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror

Evidence

The National Liberation Front, at the time when the people were undergoing the most massive assaults of colonialism, did not hesitate to prohibit certain forms of action and constantly to remind the fighting units of the international laws of war. In a war of liberation, the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without “barbarity.” The European nation that practices torture is a blighted nation, unfaithful to its history. The underdeveloped nation that practices torture thereby confirms its nature, plays the role of an underdeveloped people. If it does not wish to be morally condemned by the “Western nations,” an underdeveloped nation is obliged to practice fair play, even while its adversary ventures, with a clear conscience, into the unlimited exploration of new means of terror. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explicates the unequal moral burden the colonial structure imposes on the colonized — a core piece of the reader’s concept of ‘dying in coloniality.’
• XREF: Echoes the double-standard analysis in other anti-colonial writers like Aimé Césaire and Albert Memmi on the colonizer’s moral position. — connects to: Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized; Colonial administrations routinely respond to insurgency with indiscriminate arrests that radicalize the innocent; Justifying everywhere war requires reviving the archaic category of common enemies of humanity — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 830 (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.92)
• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted (similarity 0.88)
• Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial administrations routinely respond to insurgency with indiscriminate arrests that radicalize the innocent (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.81)
• Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66
• Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals #expands (0.60)