Liberal tolerance rhetoric collapses back into a justification for global rule
Evidence
Additional tasks? What are they, if not the tasks of ruling the world? Increased responsibility? What is it, if not responsibility for the world? And Caillois-Atlas charitably plants his feet firmly in the dust and once again raises to his sturdy shoulders the inevitable white man’s burden. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 240
Categorization
- XREF: Directly anticipates critiques of humanitarian intervention and civilizing-mission rhetoric in the Islamophobia corpus. — connects to: Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples; Liberal tolerance disguises cultural privilege and collapses into assimilation demands when tested.; Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 358 (+2 more)
Related
- Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples (similarity 0.90)
- Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed (similarity 0.81)
- Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Liberal tolerance disguises cultural privilege and collapses into assimilation demands when tested.
#corroborates(0.90) - Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy
#expands(0.82) - Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance
#corroborates(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574 - Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed
#expands(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 358