Economic dependence on property makes colonial doctors complicit in domination

Evidence

Tempels approach to colonialism reflects what Jean Paul Sartre called “neoco- lonialist mystification,” the illusory thought that “there are some good colo- nists 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 philosophi- cally 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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Colonialism is a coherent system requiring cultural and epistemic violence, not merely bad colonists. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial property ownership aligns doctors with the oppression and exploitation of the colonized (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism operates as a total system, not a matter of individual colonist goodwill. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #expands (0.50) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 737
• Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation #expands (0.35)