Native informers weaponize self-loathing into notoriety that serves western power
Evidence
Who is a native informer and what does he do—and how does he cover his brown skin with a white mask? My preliminary sketch of Ibn Warraq as a self-loathing Muslim must be augmented by a closer look at his manner of professing that he thinks he is no longer a Muslim—a gambit that makes him particularly useful to his supporters and endorsers in North America and Western Europe. Why is he not a Muslim, he wants you to wonder—and why, one may add, should anyone care? The peculiar combination of self-loathing and megalomania that results in targeting Edward Said for character assassination seems to seek an almost identical notoriety in the realm of political violence—an astounding audacity that makes him the functional equivalent of Muhammad Atta, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, in their common proclivity to ram violently into towering edifices. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 463
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the native informer figure through self-loathing and megalomania combined.
Related
- Native informers embody self-hatred by personifying what they denounce (similarity 0.88)
- Native informers project white hatred onto their collective identity to survive. (similarity 0.85)
- Self-exoticizing natives serve empire by flaunting their own degraded faith (similarity 0.81)
- Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.80)
- European native informers serve local anti-immigrant racism rather than US imperial aims. (similarity 0.79)
- Native informants leverage insider credibility to justify Western fears of Islam (similarity 0.78)