Hostility distorts even factual accounts of enemies in good faith

Evidence

Doctrines that are the expression of the spiritual outlook of an enemy are interpreted ungenerously and with prejudice, and even facts are modified — and in good faith — to suit the interpretation. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 41

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘good faith’ distortion of facts is precisely the dynamic Said and Razack trace in Orientalist and racialized scholarship on Muslims. — connects to: Partisans hold systematic misperceptions that exaggerate their opponents’ extremism and hostility. — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 30