Eboo Patel on Pluralism | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk
Eboo Patel is the founder of Interfaith America and the author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy. Patel also served as an advisor on faith to President Barack Obama.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Eboo Patel discuss how the dominant diversity paradigm in many institutions divides individuals into oppressors and oppressed; how universities can draw from the intellectual tradition of pluralism to encourage mutual respect and cooperation; and how university leaders can alleviate the deeply polarized atmosphere that prevails at many institutions around the country.
This conversation is part of a new Persuasion series on the Future of Universities. Universities are in crisis-losing public support, shaken by internal divisions, facing angry donors and alumni, and increasingly straying from their core mission of intellectual curiosity and open inquiry. Persuasion's new series about the future of universities, made possible by the generous support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, will consist of a collection of longform essays and podcast interviews aimed at helping higher education tackle this crisis.
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Exactly this. One of the things that drives me the most insane is people who can practice moral relativism for human sacrifice but can't have the time of day for a more conservative person in their own country.
"Boy there's a fire out there, I'm sure I have a fire department on this campus, don't I have a set of diversity professionals who can help these students learn from one another and talk or at least de-escalate. Then somebody whisper to you and 'actually some of our people have been the firestarters'". Brilliant analogy.