Even higher wartime death rates of Indos were blamed on their weaker moral fibre

Evidence

Malnutrition induces lethargy at work, which doubtless could to a large extent explain the commonly held pied noir notion that the Algerian worker was, by nature, indolent and idle. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 185 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The commission framed concubinage as the root of Indo moral decline; Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority; Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. (+7 more)

Related

• Malnutrition-driven lethargy was misread as racial indolence by settlers (similarity 0.88)
• Higher 1940s internment-camp death rates of Indos were blamed on their ‘weaker moral fibre’. (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noir beliefs about lazy Algerian workers masked malnutrition’s effects (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority #corroborates (0.70)
• Colonial accusations of indolence and insolence were codes for racial unfitness. #exemplifies (0.65)
• Malnutrition-driven lethargy was misread as racial indolence by settlers #expands (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 185
• Disease deaths under colonial conditions constitute genocide by neglect. #qualifies (0.55) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 103
• State-sponsored death corrupts the moral life of a modern nation. #complicates (0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 662