Photo = Capture of the Instagram post of Cyber Diplomatic Mission
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[아시아경제 김영은 기자] Amid controversy arose by John Mark Ramsey, a professor at Harvard University Law School in the U.S. who claimed to be prostitutes for the victims of Japanese military comfort women, the president of Harvard University in the U.S. said there was no problem with the thesis being included in “academic freedom.” It is said that he has revealed his will.
‘Vank’, a cyber diplomatic mission, announced on the 17th that Lawrence Bakau, Harvard University president, responded to an e-mail protest demanding condemnation at the university level and withdrawing Professor Ramsey’s thesis.
“Professor Ramzier’s expression of controversial views within the university is included in academic freedom. Even when controversial views are offensive to the majority of our society,” said Professor Ramsey. It is an individual opinion,” he said.
Ban Ki-tae, head of Vank, pointed out, “Can you say that research advocating for black slavery or leading German Nazis is an area protected by academic freedom?”, and VANK responded to Professor Ramzier’s petition for withdrawal of thesis. It announced that it plans to resend the protest letter along with a list of 1,600 people from all over the country.
John Mark Ramsey, professor at Harvard Law School. Photo = Harvard University Law School public video capture
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Earlier on the 1st, the Sankei Shimbun of Japan said on the 1st that a paper that Professor Ramzier stipulated as “prostitute” the victims of comfort women in the Japanese military will be published in an academic journal. The paper will be published next month in the international journal’International Review of Law and Economics’ under the title’Contracting for sex in the Pacific War’. to be.
In the thesis, Professor Ramsey argued that both Korean and Japanese comfort women were certified prostitutes and were not’sex slaves’ who were kidnapped by Japan and forced to prostitute.
The controversy was followed by saying that there was a problem with recruiters in Joseon, who tricked women into working in prostitution facilities for decades, and explained that neither the Japanese government nor the Joseon Governor-General forced women into prostitution, nor did the Japanese military cooperate with unclean recruiters. Got up.
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