Pro-revolution settlers had to disguise their allegiance even from the resistance

Evidence

The settler who helps the Revolution might be led to echo colonialist remarks in public—at the café or in a conversation—in order to assure the other Europeans of his solidarity. “With them the only thing that counts is force… . They’re all in cahoots… .” The people, who have their ears to the ground, find out that these remarks have been made, and a new body of evidence builds up in the village. That settler is unanimously designated as a target for the fadaïnes. It then becomes necessary to intervene tactfully, to prohibit any act of hostility to the person or against the property of that settler and at the same time not give any hint as to the reasons for these instructions. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the double-consciousness dynamics Fanon describes for colonized subjects, here inverted onto the colonizer collaborator. — connects to: The 1954 revolution released a long-prepared tactic rather than awakening a passive people; Pro-F.L.N. settlers publicly echoed colonialist talk to protect their cover, briefly becoming targets.; Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554 (+2 more)

Related

• Pro-F.L.N. settlers publicly echoed colonialist talk to protect their cover, briefly becoming targets. (similarity 0.93)
• Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial race was judged by conduct and affiliation rather than appearance #exemplifies (0.60)
• Colonial press propaganda shaped even sympathetic settlers’ early views #qualifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 554
• The colonized withhold truth from the colonizer as a defense. #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 463