Colonial interests saturated nearly all Western texts on the Orient

Evidence

One of the most controversial arguments Said makes in Orientalism concerns the extent to which colonial interests permeate not just the writings of select nineteenth- and early twentieth-century authors but almost any text written on the Orient in Europe or the United States. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 207

Categorization

• XREF: The totalizing scope of the claim — even sympathetic scholars are implicated — tests where the religion/people line holds. — connects to: Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421; Empire subtly permeated every family relation in colonial correspondence (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim women were pornographically depicted to commodity the Orient #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Subaltern studies read colonial documents against the grain to expose their rhetorical distortions #qualifies (0.50)
• Empire subtly permeated every family relation in colonial correspondence #exemplifies (0.40)
• Scholars have treated colonial sentiment as ornament rather than substance of rule #complicates (0.35)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized #expands (0.35)