Daily Inspiration Quote by Ernst Zundel

The line borrows the language of civic caution to smuggle in a grievance: prejudice is framed as a dangerous fuel, and the speaker casts himself (and “German people”) as the foreseeable victims of an overheated public mood. It’s a tidy metaphor, “stoke” to “fires” to “discharge,” that turns social accountability into a kind of accidental weapon misfire. No one is responsible; harm just happens “somewhere, sometime down the road.”

Coming from Ernst Zundel, the intent is hard to separate from the long record that made him notorious: a Holocaust denier who repeatedly styled himself as a persecuted dissident. In that context, “prejudice against German people” operates as a strategic abstraction. It invites the listener to conflate criticism of Nazi ideology, historical responsibility, or denialism itself with ethnic bigotry against Germans as a group. The move is familiar: shift the argument from evidence and harm to feelings and fairness, from what was done to what is “said” about those connected to it.

The subtext is a demand for insulation. If backlash against Zundel’s politics can be recoded as anti-German prejudice, then condemnation becomes the real violence, and the provocateur gets to wear the mantle of the warned-about casualty. The phrase “then not find” signals a lawyerly posture, implying inevitability and foreknowledge: society has been reckless, and when consequences arrive, don’t blame him.

It works rhetorically because it’s plausible in the abstract (collective scapegoating can metastasize), while quietly redirecting sympathy away from victims of extremist propaganda and toward the propagandist’s preferred identity frame.