Philhellenism perpetuated Western hostility to the Turk

Evidence

In more recent times, Western hostility to the Turk was perpetuated by the enthusiasm of the philhellenes who, in their just admiration for Greece, did less than justice to the Turk, seeing in him only the brutal destroyer of the liberties of Hellas, and forgetting the famous words of the Byzantine dignitary Lucas Notaras, “It is better to see in the city the power of the Turkish turban than that of the Latin tiara.” — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 630

Categorization

• XREF: A specific mechanism of representation-formation: a European ‘admiration for’ one side (Greece) structured the negative image of the other — parallels how sympathetic identification elsewhere in Orientalism codes the whole region. — connects to: Early America defined its republican identity against imagined Ottoman despotism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 212; Anti-Turk attitudes shaped English views of Native Americans as savages
• ADDENDUM: Corroborates the mechanism pattern in the im-modesty essays: moral framing of the Other along cultural lines is layered with class/political signaling, here philhellene enthusiasm.