Reactionary discourse frames revolutionary politics as pathological sexuality.

Evidence

Whatever else this passage says—purple writing of the most extreme sort, counterrevolutionary zealotry—it is saying nothing less than that revolution is a bad kind of sexuality (pseudo-divine act of creation), and also a cancerous disease. Whatever is done by the “human,” according to Vatikiotis, is rational, right, subtle, discrete, concrete; whatever the revolutionary proclaims is brutal, irrational, mesmeric, cancerous. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 793

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how conservative Orientalists encode normative claims—rationality as Western and humane, revolution as disease—into what looks like description.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 793
• XREF: connects to: CRT is depicted as indoctrinating children into oppressor-oppressed revolutionary politics.; Political rhetoric weaponizes sex and disease metaphors to racialize whole peoples. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 794; Portraying terrorists as failed heterosexuals suppresses analysis of political causes (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: CRT is depicted as indoctrinating children into oppressor-oppressed revolutionary politics.; Political rhetoric weaponizes sex and disease metaphors to racialize whole peoples. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 794; Portraying terrorists as failed heterosexuals suppresses analysis of political causes (+1 more)