European nations tolerated Nazism because it was first used against non-European peoples.

Evidence

At the very beginnings of European civilization (meaning literally the reappearance of urban life at the end of the first Christian millennium), the integration of the Germanic migrants with older European peoples resulted in a social order of domination from which a racial theory of order emerged; one from which the medieval nobilities would immerse themselves and their power in fictional histories, positing distinct racial origins for rulers and the dominated. The extension of slavery and the application of racism to non-European peoples as an organizing structure by first the ruling feudal strata and then the bourgeoisies of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries retained this practical habit, this social convention. … Moreover, European racialism was to undergo a kind of doubling onto itself, for in between the era of intra-European racism that characterized the first appearance of European consciousness and the predatory era of African enslavement, is the almost entirely exogenous phenomenon of Islamic domination of the Mediterranean—the eventual fount of European revitalization and recivilization. Independent of the historical meshings of European development but profoundly restricting that development—first in literally retarding European social development by isolating it from civil life, science, speculative thought, and so on, and then, after four centuries, by accelerating its recovery from the twelfth century onward—Muslim civilization mapped the contours of the European cultural renaissance. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 384 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination (similarity 0.88)
• European racism began as intra-European class domination before it was applied to Africans. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamic Mediterranean civilization both retarded and then accelerated Europe’s development, seeding anti-Islamic racism. (similarity 0.84)
• Europeans forgive crimes committed against non-whites but not against whites (similarity 0.82)
• Europe tolerated and cultivated Nazism while it only targeted non-European peoples (similarity 0.82)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.81)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.81)
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other (similarity 0.81)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.80)
• Europe’s first racialized view of Africans came through Islam’s armies (similarity 0.80)
• European racialism has four analytically distinct historical moments (similarity 0.80)
• Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself (similarity 0.80)
• Racism has no universal structure but only historically specific forms (similarity 0.80)
• A civilization like Europe’s could not produce self-critique exposing its own racialism (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-European nativism recycled emotions first aimed at nonwhite groups (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #expands (0.60)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. #expands (0.55)
• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination #exemplifies (0.45) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 384
• Islamophobia remains Europe’s one tolerated and even encouraged racist ideology #qualifies (0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 486