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Fanon on colonialism and violence

Fanon argued that colonized people cannot simply reason their way to freedom because the colonizer's violence is embedded in every institution and in the colonized person's own internalized inferiority; liberation therefore requires a violent rupture that restores dignity and transforms consciousness simultaneously. His work refuses the comfort of nonviolence rhetoric when applied to those under systematic dehumanization.

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