David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"

Today on The Gist, the profound failure of empathy within our immigration bureaucracy is put under the microscope following the tragic freezing death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind Rohingya refugee abandoned in a Buffalo parking lot by Border Patrol. Then, UC Berkeley law professor David Oppenheimer joins the show to discuss his book, The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea . He traces the intellectual history of multiculturalism back to 1810 Prussia, arguing that a clash …