Native informers project white hatred onto their collective identity to survive.

Evidence

As particularly acute cases of Islamophobia, Ibn Warraq and Hirsi Ali represent native informers who at once inhabit and target, personify and alienate, the hated abstraction they wish to exorcise from the moral psychosis that has posited them as aliens. The native informers thus identify with white hatred, but in order to be able to go on living they project this hatred onto their collective identity and away from their hidden and anonymous I—thus the evident paradox of both self-loathing and megalomania. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 460

The native informers thus identify with white hatred, but in order to be able to go on living they project this hatred onto their collective identity and away from their hidden and anonymous I—thus the evident paradox of both self-loathing and megalomania. The difference between Ibn Warraq and Hirsi Ali is that while her hatred for her own collective identity remains abstract and hidden within the stories that she keeps weaving about her life, his coagulates around the public figure of Edward Said, and by performing a character assassination—he perpetrates what he says he is afraid of; he assassinates the character that he says he hates but in fact envies and emulates. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 460

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the native informer mechanism central to the chapter: self-loathing plus megalomania produced by identifying with the oppressor’s hatred.
• XREF: Echoes Dabashi’s longstanding critique of native informers (Brown Skin, White Masks thesis) and the general dynamic of colonial self-hatred.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 460

Related

• Native informers weaponize self-loathing into notoriety that serves western power (similarity 0.85)
• Native informers embody self-hatred by personifying what they denounce (similarity 0.85)
• Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.79)
• Native informers humiliate their own communities by conceding defeat in advance (similarity 0.79)