Europe only acknowledged racism when it was located elsewhere, in South Africa or America

Evidence

Where race reentered the consciousness of Europeans later in the twentieth century, accordingly, it was initially in the very delimited and altogether exteriorized case of opposition to apartheid South Africa. If on its own soil Europe could see race only in the cauldron of antisemitism, apartheid and American racial politics were taken as the sum of racism anywhere. This then expanded in conceiving race as the force of prejudice exercised against newcomers, race still an irrational excess tethered to the historical exemplification of the antisemitic. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 854

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did early European anti-apartheid solidarity function as a way to avoid confronting domestic racism?
• XREF: connects to: Only atrocities against Europeans, not colonial ones, were held to discredit civilization-talk. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 103