":::::::I never said ""all Germans"" I said it was unremarkable.  Frege is a typical conservative German of the time, and is probably comparable to a racist white American today.  Sure America has a black president, but white anti-black racism is sufficiently common as to be unremarkable.  Dummett's shock is that of a person seeing a hero not live up to the fantasy image they've built of their hero in their head.  It isn't the shock of finding the one anti-semite in all of 19th century Germany.  The shock all stems from Dummett building an unrealistic image of the guy.    
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