2021/02/09-6 Richard W. Painter
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午後10:23 · 2021年2月9日
This paper portrays WW2 comfort women as prostitutes, uses "law and economics" to justify war crimes and rape. After John Yoo's defense of torture perhaps the worst paper ever written. At least the author wasn't working for the Japanese army 75 years ago.
この論文は、第二次世界大戦中の慰安婦を売春婦として描写し、「法と経済」を用いて戦争犯罪やレイプを正当化している。ジョン・ユーの拷問擁護の後では、おそらくこれまでに書かれた中で最悪の論文でしょう。少なくとも、著者は75年前に日本軍のために働いていたわけではありません。
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Posted on : Feb.9,2021 17:55 KST Modified on : Feb.9,2021 17:55 KST
Koreans at Harvard demand retraction of academic paper that portrays comfort women as prostitutes
The Harvard Korean Society released a statement on Feb. 8 castigating the comfort woman paper
The Harvard Korean Society, a group of around 600 current students and alumni of Harvard University, released a statement on Feb. 8 denouncing J. Mark Ramseyer, a Harvard Law School professor who wrote an academic paper characterizing victims of Japanese military sexual slavery as “sex workers.”
This comes in the wake of joint statements by the Korean Association of Harvard Law School and Harvard’s China Law Association also denouncing the paper, as well as criticisms of Ramseyer by other Harvard professors.
“[Ramseyer’s paper] relies upon highly biased and unreliable evidence to reach the wrong conclusion. Referring to the women who suffered wartime sexual violence as prostitutes not only disregards their human rights but also condones a colonial view of history. We call upon Ramseyer to make an official apology and retract his paper,” the Harvard Korean Society said.
“Ramseyer disregards instances of fraud, human trafficking and kidnapping that occurred during the recruitment of the comfort women and focuses instead on an extremely small number of examples of Korean middlemen to misrepresent the entire recruitment process as having taken place legally.”
“Ramseyer argues that the comfort women assumed that occupation of their own free will, citing work contracts that the Japanese military drafted for them. That is tantamount to justifying the behavior of a criminal based on documents composed by the criminal himself.”
The Harvard Korean Society asked the International Review of Law and Economics to rescind its acceptance of Ramseyer’s paper.
“Along with exonerating the criminal activity of a state that committed war crimes, Ramseyer’s paper causes secondary victimization of women forced to work at wartime brothels. And by justifying the Japanese army’s comfort women system, which was a crime against humanity, it inculcates an improper view of research ethics in students,” the group said.
The society plans to deliver copies of its statement to Harvard University, the International Review of Law and Economics, and Ramseyer himself.
By Choi Hyun-june, staff reporter
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