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Evans McKinney's avatar

I used to work in China and Jiang is a familiar enough type. He’s got a sort of fetish for Western thought that is half baked at best. This combined with the Chinese cultural weakness of saying whatever the listener wants to hear without exactly “lying” is something that Westerners have no immunity to.

On our side a lot of people think that he’s CCP. I don’t think it matters if he’s CCP, Falun Gong, or just a run of the mill grifter (my belief).

Laurent Guyénot's avatar

Excellent. I posted this note on X: https://x.com/Laurent_Guyenot/status/2056330588521398680?s=20

Fake Professor Jiang is a pied piper, meaning someone promoted to charm you with a lot of rehashed truths presented as brand new, only to lead you, the gullible, into a dead end rabbit hole. There is also a cult-like dimension to the operation, not unlike Operation Q.

Richard Storey's avatar

Appreciate the support!

DB's avatar

I like Jiang a lot but I found irritating how nobody notices the things you commented, nice summary.

Richard Storey's avatar

Much appreciated

YourUncleDarnell's avatar

He's not a professor. He has a bachelor's degree and nothing more. He works as a high school teacher in China.

Sir Tricky the Grey's avatar

I was lucky enough to hear his talk on secret societies as an excuse for women to have sex in the woods, which is a hilariously bad take

SiriusRex's avatar

He is a Mason9c stooge playing his part like they ALL do..

Captain Farrell's avatar

Good takedown, if you can’t get the first principles right then you can’t get everything right by definition

Richard Storey's avatar

Thanks. You got it.

Observateur's avatar

À propos de “Professor Jiang, Predicting the Future” :

Hendrik Lorentz developed the mathematics on the basis of which Einstein presented his restricted relativity theory. Hendrik Lorentz was a Nobel Prize laureate at the time, while Einstein was a functionary in Bern, Switzerland. Yet when one speaks of relativity, one never mentions Hendrik Lorentz. Conclusion: even if more than one person thinks the same, in a certain way, one needs the intellectual courage to put ideas forward that others might also be close to but never thought of doing for whatever reason. History rewards the first that puts ideas together because he takes the intellectual risk of doing so!

svartberg's avatar

He is 100% CCP copy and steal. He steal from many,most from Christopher Jon Bjerknes andd Sir escanor…

Dillon Boone's avatar

He was probably part of that Skull & Bones club at Yale

Thumbnail Green's avatar

Jiang is fun but he's like fast food. If you want solid bones and high nutrition you have eat @esckey. If you can digest his work Jiang (and just about everyone else) just seem like fairy floss.

Also re Piketty check out esc work on him. Makes Jiang interpretation look like a total misdirection.

BadDentist's avatar

He repeats that he thinks religion is the most important pillar of society for social cohesion something Marx got wrong. He also repeats that he is trying to help equip his young students with tools to be able to critically think and he is NOT teaching a history class. You somehow missed all this. I welcome a take-down of this guy but nobody has done it yet. Ankle biting indeed.

Richard Storey's avatar

Cults operate in a similar way. His tone throughout is that certain things are "obvious" or that you are foolish if you don't conclude as he does. This isn't the objective non-ideological tone with which he starts each series. The points I've made here stand.

Leon Motta's avatar

An article was required to demonstrate that he is wrong.