War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism
Evidence
It must not be believed, however, that the traditional ceremonies are repeated in the case of natural deaths, resulting from illnesses or accidents. Even then, it seems virtually impossible to revive the habitual techniques of despair. The war has dislocated Algerian society to such a point that any death is conceived of as a direct or indirect consequence of colonialist repression. Today there is not a dead person in Algeria who is not the victim of French colonialism. It is impossible for an Algerian civilian to remain untouched by the war of colonial reconquest. More than this, there is not a death of an Algerian outside of Algeria which is not attributed to French colonialism. The Algerian people have thus decided that, until independence, French colonialism will be innocent of none of the wounds inflicted upon its body and its consciousness. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389
Categorization
- XREF: This totalizing attribution — colonialism guilty of every wound — parallels Fanon’s own medical practice account elsewhere, linking political and medical understanding of death. — connects to: Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial; Colonialism is held causally responsible for every single Algerian death; Colonial machine-gun wars killed en masse while inflicting near-zero white casualties — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 338 (+6 more)
Related
- Colonialism is held causally responsible for every single Algerian death (similarity 0.92)
- Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial (similarity 0.89)
Broader Connections
- Even higher wartime death rates of Indos were blamed on their weaker moral fibre
#exemplifies(0.85) - Disease deaths under colonial conditions constitute genocide by neglect.
#expands(0.70) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 103 - Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other
#exemplifies(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373 - A shared logic of blame unified yet divided colonial narratives of violence.
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