Human-rights outrage at the UN applied stricter standards to right-wing Europe than black Africa.

Evidence

There is also the double standard between black and white. While General Franco was being condemned for his executions, President Amin in Uganda was killing black Ugandans in numbers and by methods which made Francoist Spain look like a family Christmas party. Liberal opinion, however, though outraged by events in Spain, remained unmoved by what was happening in Uganda. There are two possible explanations of this silence. One is that white victims are so much more important than black victims that five Spaniards count for more than thousands of Ugandans. The other is that higher standards of behavior are expected from a European, even a Spanish fascist government, than from an African ruler. Either of these explanations would indicate a profoundly racist attitude. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1325

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the Islam-West representation cluster — this is a mechanism passage about whose suffering becomes legible to Western liberal audiences, paralleling Said’s argument about which regions get rendered visible.
• SEED: Angle: the ‘victim legibility hierarchy’ — a structural argument about why some genocides move Western publics and others don’t, framed through this Franco-vs-Amin case.