Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home

Evidence

The National Liberation Front, at the time when the people were undergoing the most massive assaults of colonialism, did not hesitate to prohibit certain forms of action and constantly to remind the fighting units of the international laws of war. In a war of liberation, the colonized people must win, but they must do so cleanly, without “barbarity.” The European nation that practices torture is a blighted nation, unfaithful to its history. The underdeveloped nation that practices torture thereby confirms its nature, plays the role of an underdeveloped people. If it does not wish to be morally condemned by the “Western nations,” an underdeveloped nation is obliged to practice fair play, even while its adversary ventures, with a clear conscience, into the unlimited exploration of new means of terror. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

An underdeveloped people must prove, by its fighting power, its ability to set itself up as a nation, and by the purity of every one of its acts, that it is, even to the smallest detail, the most lucid, the most self-controlled people. But this is all very difficult. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Approved colonizers drop all pretense of travel and act as at home; Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s (+7 more)

Related

• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted (similarity 0.89)
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.87)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial administrations routinely respond to insurgency with indiscriminate arrests that radicalize the innocent (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror #corroborates (0.68) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65
• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted #corroborates (0.62) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66
• Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.52) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Imperial language instruction did not guarantee colonized people entry into the imperial nation #expands (0.50)
• Colonial racism welded dynastic legitimacy to national community by universalizing inherited superiority #complicates (0.45)