Hegemonic Orientalist ideas override independent skeptical dissent

Evidence

There is in addition the hegemony of European ideas about the Orient, themselves reiterating European superiority over Oriental backwardness, usually overriding the possibility that a more independent, or more skeptical, thinker might have had different views on the matter. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 62

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly does hegemony override — the production of alternate views, or merely their reception?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 62