But, Francis Jeanson says, every citizen of a nation is responsible for the actions committed in the name of that nation: … You pride yourselves on keeping your distance from realities of a certain kind: so you allow a free hand to those who are immune to the most unhealthy climates because they create these climates themselves through their own conduct. And if, apparently, you succeed in keeping yourselves unsullied, it is because others dirty themselves in your place. You hire thugs, and, balancing the accounts, it is you who are the real criminals: for without you, without your blind indifference, such men could never carry out deeds that damn you as much as they shame those men.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 336