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He says a livestreamed global seminar in China requires privacy caution and self-censorship because contemporary culture judges speech harshly and censorship is now a pervasive reality.
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Free speech
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "more okay um so um a couple comments um uh first of all this is being live streamed and we need to be conscious..."
Key Notes
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Jiang contrasts his college-era norm of free speech as a primary ideal with a present culture of cancellation and harsh punishment for speech.
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Mill refines utilitarianism into classical liberalism: people may do and say what they want if they do not harm others, and open debate lets society progress.
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Jiang reads Kant as defending an absolutist understanding of freedom of expression, including speech others might hate, because censorship denies people's capacity to judge.
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Jiang argues that liberalism is dead because Trump caused liberals to conclude that democratic speech, debate, and voting cannot work if people cannot be reasoned with.
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Jiang says the First Amendment is what makes America great and must be protected at all costs.
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Jiang says the First Amendment is the best thing about America and should guide whom people support politically.
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Dave says losing the First Amendment would be nearly irreversible, so whoever supports free speech is the good side and whoever opposes it is the bad side.
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"more okay um so um a couple comments um uh first of all this is being live streamed and we need to be conscious..."
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"...I was growing up when we were in college like like free speech was the primary ideal like like it's something like you don't..."
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"what does the youth do look i completely agree with dave i think first of all the best thing about america the thing that..."
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"let's start with professor jang yeah no i mean this has been a great conversation like i love you know i i think we..."
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"absolutely yeah it's great a great point man and like for his for as bad as so many things are then you certainly don't..."
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"...is i completely agree with that whoever's on the side of free speech here always is the good guy in in my book and..."
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"are you having dave smith on oh my god it joe rogan has on so many people whose views i completely disagree with and..."
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"...In that piece, you praised the US media as the world's free speech defender of last resort. You said, in China, power trumps truth...."
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"...for American democracy because he was clearly not a believer in free speech. He called the news media fake news. And so I wrote..."
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"the 1990s when open free debate was a core liberal value so i might say things that offend you and you might say things..."
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"...definitely in decline. Openness, you see a lot of crackdowns on free speech. Especially in universities, you have DEI, and now you have a..."
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"You wanna eat ice cream, go eat ice cream. You're not harming anyone, all right? Obviously there are lots of issues with this theory..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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