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Jiang compares this poetic theft to plagiarism, which he says is treated in universities as a deeper violation than ordinary financial crime because it steals and corrupts another's intellectual work.
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Key Notes
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A student offers selling credentials as a modern equivalent of simony, and Jiang treats it as a strong lead.
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Jiang says universities sell credentials not only through donations but through summer school, continuing education, and similar channels.
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Jiang says universities are today's equivalent of the church because they function as society's most trusted authority.
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Jiang says no institution in America can bring people together anymore because media, science, the military, universities, government, and courts have all lost trust.
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Jiang says universities have become politicized by teaching students to think in a particular left-wing way rather than teaching them how to think.
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He answers Peter that university education is still up to the student because universities contain many professors and classes, so students can structure their own learning while recognizing institutional limits.
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He answers Jack that distrust of universities comes mostly from people left out of the university system, especially the right, although he notes dissenting faculty and students inside universities.
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"That's interesting. What's the worst thing you can do in university plagiarism, right? Plagiarism is a lot worse than counterfeiting the coin, right? If..."
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"plagiarism means to steal ideas, mother people and pretend it's your own."
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"selling credentials excuse me credentials selling credentials yeah"
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"that's a really good example right selling diplomas right and do universities engage in some diplomas oh legacies no no no no it's actually..."
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"...school continue education like there are lots of ways in which universities sell their credentials okay uh any other examples yes"
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"...okay because uh what's the equivalent of the church today it's universities right they have the most authority they're the people who they they..."
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"...Christian Zionist, you believe like the media, the judiciary and the universities are fundamentally liberal institutions and therefore you have to burn down these..."
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"...you see a lot of crackdowns on free speech. Especially in universities, you have DEI, and now you have a crackdown on speech that..."
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"...including the judicial system, the media, the education institutions, right, the universities, they're all, they've all been discredited, right? You have the universities engaging..."
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"...don't want to trust the media. You don't want to trust universities. So you need a new institution to legitimize your authority, to control..."
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"...to school and it's silly because if you go to these universities these thousands"
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"...empty because young people don't want to go to school but universities uh want the tuition so they're perfectly willing to let the kids..."
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