Mainstream American media saturated prime-time television with generic Muslim caricatures.

Evidence

Assiduous research has shown that there is hardly a prime-time television show without several episodes of patently racist and insulting caricatures of Muslims, all of whom tend to be represented in unqualified categorical and generic terms: one Muslim is therefore seen to be typical of all Muslims and of Islam in general. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 216

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said’s broader Orientalism thesis about generic, undifferentiated representation of the East across Western discourse. — connects to: Mainstream media gave Islamophobic commentators hundreds of appearances with minimal scrutiny.

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