World War I supplied colonial troops on a massive scale while contradicting empire’s rationale

Evidence

Unable to stand up to all the demands, the white man sloughs off his responsibilities. I have a name for this procedure: the racial distribution of guilt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism; World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy; World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial powers distribute hatred by giving each subject group a sanctioned enemy. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.82)
• World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts against French colonial rule (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism’s source was diffuse, a collaborative effort involving the colonized themselves (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers (similarity 0.79)
• The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. #exemplifies (0.55)
• Colonial authorities deflect responsibility onto colonized groups against each other #exemplifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 373
• World War I barracks forged cross-colonial Black political exchange. #expands (0.55)
• The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa #expands (0.45)