The race-as-emergency-explanation framework licensed mass colonial massacres

Evidence

If you criticize the colonialism that drives the most peaceable populations to despair, M. Mannoni will explain to you that after all, the ones responsible are not the colonialist whites but the colonized Madagascans. Damn it all, they took the whites for gods and expected of them everything one expects of the divinity! — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A shared logic of blame unified yet divided colonial narratives of violence.; Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161; Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest #exemplifies (0.85)
• A shared logic of blame unified yet divided colonial narratives of violence. #expands (0.82)
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized #corroborates (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161