Lawrence framed colonialism as benevolent nation-building toward racial reconciliation

Evidence

I meant to make a new nation, to restore a lost influence, to give twenty millions of Semites the foundation on which to build an inspired dream-palace of their national thoughts.… All the subject provinces of the Empire to me were not worth one dead English boy. If I have restored to the East some self-respect, a goal, ideals: if I have made the standard rule of white over red more exigent, I have fitted those peoples in a degree for the new commonwealth in which the dominant races will forget their brute achievements, and white and red and yellow and brown and black will stand up together without side-glances in the service of the world. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 608

Categorization

• XREF: Primary-source evidence for the paternalist ‘white man’s burden’ rhetoric the Islamophobia field traces in later colonial and neocolonial discourse.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 608