Labeling a settler conflict ‘tribal’ displaces its causes onto the colonized

Evidence

It is that appearance of anachronistic peculiarity that has made it possible for the publics of Britain and beyond, not to mention their pundits, to embrace the notion – telling as it is – that the Irish conflict is “tribal” in nature. … Religious (tribal) conflict is, as I suggested at the outset, no more than the modality in which the political struggle over that colonial legacy has been lived in Northern Ireland. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2113

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religion in settler conflict operates as a differential marker, not as doctrine — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2064; Settler identity depends constitutively on the colonized it wishes to erase. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2105; Euphemistic labeling historically legitimized dispossession of native peoples. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 287 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial classificatory language displaced violence onto natives and absolved Europeans #corroborates (0.95) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1277
• Euphemistic labeling historically legitimized dispossession of native peoples. #corroborates (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 287
• The “cannibal” label classified which natives would submit to colonial rule #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373