Celebrated statements of cultural value simultaneously bind and exclude

Evidence

Nevertheless, the human partnerships formed by reiterated cultural values excluded as much as they included. For every idea about “our” art spoken for by Arnold, Ruskin, Mill, Newman, Carlyle, Renan, Gobineau, or Comte, another link in the chain binding “us” together was formed while another outsider was banished. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 570

Categorization

• XREF: This inclusion-exclusion double move is a mechanism the Islamophobia field builds on — the construction of ‘us’ via the expulsion of ‘them’.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 570