Native informers differ from collaborators by selling wars to domestic audiences
Evidence
I make a specific distinction between the figure of the native informer and that of the collaborator. The latter tells the conquering power what it needs to know in order to better dominate, while the former tells it what it wants to hear in order to better sell its wars, particularly to its domestic audience. The collaborator provides factual and strategic knowledge, the native informer provides emotive vistas and ideological slants with which to criminalize any mode of resistance to domination. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126
Categorization
- DEFINE: Dabashi’s sharpest operative distinction — native informer vs. collaborator — anchored in a concrete example (Ephialtes).
- XREF: connects to: War blogs positioned themselves as trustworthy alternatives to official spin — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 106; Native informants shaped US strategy in government-organized conferences
Related
- Native informers sell wars domestically while collaborators provide battlefield intelligence. (similarity 0.90)
- Native informants shaped US strategy in government-organized conferences (similarity 0.80)
- War blogs positioned themselves as trustworthy alternatives to official spin (similarity 0.79)
- Native informers tell the colonizer what he wants to hear, not what he needs. (similarity 0.79)