Eboo Patel Says Blue America Needs to Rethink How We Do Diversity
About this episode
Eboo Patel discusses the need for Blue America to rethink its approach to diversity and critiques current DEI practices.
Eboo Patel, an Ismaili Muslim, is the founder and president of Interfaith America, a Chicago-based non-profit that works to promote pluralism and foster cooperation across differences of religion. He is a fierce advocate for diversity - "America is a diversity project," he contends - and for the importance of identity to our conception of self. And yet he is also a sharp critic of DEI regimes as they are typically practiced on college campuses or within other culturally progressive institutio...
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