Even dissenting critics remain loyal to the power systems they critique.

Evidence

Said’s placement of Orientalism as a sort of exception was problematic, not to mention arbitrary, and that Guénon’s diagnosis did not go the full length that its potential allowed for. This is attributable, as I have intimated, to Said’s ideological commitments, which, as a dissenting author, remained largely loyal to the system of power in which he operated, at times with passion, and mostly unconsciously. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s power/knowledge and to the general question of whether any critique escapes its own episteme.
• QUESTION: Hallaq argues Said’s dissent was unconsciously complicit — is this a fair charge, and does it apply to Hallaq’s own work too?