[Opinion] What Failed Discussion Shows About Teaching Diversity (opinion)

What Failed Discussion Shows About Teaching Diversity (opinion)

When a classroom discussion about Ben Shapiro descended quickly into ridicule, I knew we needed to rewind. I showed my class a three‑minute clip of Ben Shapiro. It went about as you’d expect. I am an assistant professor of higher education, and I teach an undergraduate course called Embracing Diversity. I have taught this course for four consecutive semesters, during a period when the very ideas we examine (diversity, inequality, critical race t…