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 th century germany the shock all stems from dummett building an unrealistic image of the guy