An attack on the idea that minorities must be protected against the facts. Was greeted with rabid howls of rage in left wing England, but it is actually written in a very civil tone and in acceptance of the positive origin of much of the now existing effective bans on free speech in the West.

One fact given some prominence is that knowledge of African immigrants being the source of a sharp increase in the spread of HIV did not stop the Guardian and the BBC from blaming irresponsible whites.

The author sees some tunnel-end light in the coming need for the West to compete against the Asians, and therefore to return to a more meritocratic, democratic and rational culture. Thin, - 120 pages all counted; nothing really that adds much to the works of Thomas Sowell on the same theme. ( )

http://leestafel.blogspot.com/2006/09/retreat-of-reason.html ( )