Fabians rejected universal democratic institutions as unsuited to non-Europeans.

Evidence

The Fabians also inherited Mill’s scepticism about the universalist belief that political institutions suitable for England or France are ‘the only fit form of government for Bedouins and Malays’. In 1901, Shaw noted that the British Empire was no longer ‘a Commonwealth of white men and baptised Christians’, and argued against extending democratic institutions to subjects who were ‘black, brown, or yellow’, and whose creed was ‘Mahometan, Buddhist or Hindu’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 245

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s human-rights work: this is the direct ancestor of arguments that human rights are unsuitable export products for non-Western cultures.
• SHARE: Bernard Shaw’s 1901 racialized argument against extending democratic institutions is a striking concrete detail for someone into Fabian history.