edwardligma is exactly right. "Manichean" as Fanon describes it refers to the colonizers tendency to portray their exploitation in humanitarian term - they are bringing the light of "civilization" to the savages (the people being colonized).
Franky, it's a point that comes up a lot in Settlers that really makes a lot of American leftists rage, but it's fact. A lot of historical "change" movements in the US have been dominated by crazy Puritans/"Progressives" who treat colonized and oppressed people as abused children who need to be saved via morality. Not a coincidence that the early-20th century Progressive movement was rabidly opposed to Socialists - who were largely continental Euros or non-white people as opposed to good founding stock Americans.
edwardligma is exactly right. "Manichean" as Fanon describes it refers to the colonizers tendency to portray their exploitation in humanitarian term - they are bringing the light of "civilization" to the savages (the people being colonized).
Franky, it's a point that comes up a lot in Settlers that really makes a lot of American leftists rage, but it's fact. A lot of historical "change" movements in the US have been dominated by crazy Puritans/"Progressives" who treat colonized and oppressed people as abused children who need to be saved via morality. Not a coincidence that the early-20th century Progressive movement was rabidly opposed to Socialists - who were largely continental Euros or non-white people as opposed to good founding stock Americans.