The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system.

Evidence

The new relations are not the result of one barbarism replacing another barbarism, of one crushing of man replacing another crushing of man. What we Algerians want is to discover the man behind the colonizer; this man who is both the organizer and the victim of a system that has choked him and reduced him to silence. As for us, we have long since rehabilitated the Algerian colonized man. We have wrenched the Algerian man from a centuries-old and implacable oppression. We have risen to our feet and we are now moving forward. Who can settle us back in servitude? — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about how colonialism affected the European minority — Fanon frames the settler as a victim of the same system. — connects to: The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes; Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism.; Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies Fanon’s conceptualization of ‘the man behind the colonizer’ as both organizer and choked victim.

Related

• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.95)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonization corrupts the colonizer, who becomes inured to atrocity (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.81)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.81)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized learned of the revolution’s gravity by reading the settler’s visible anxiety (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.80)
• Colonizing civilizations are morally corrupted and inevitably breed fascism (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #corroborates (0.70)
• Colonialism involves both objective conditions and human attitudes toward them. #expands (0.60)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #expands (0.55)