Korean students at Harvard University condemned Harvard professor for calling comfort women victims prostitutes.
On the 5th of the local time, a statement in both Korean and English was posted on the Facebook’American Korean Student Association’.
This is a statement to the Harvard Mitsubishi Law Professor John Mark Ramseyer, who recently made a mistake in comfort women.
In a statement, the Harvard Undergraduate Korean Student Association said, “Professor Ramsayer’s thesis started from a wrong premise,” and “I make a flawed claim that the Japanese government does not have to take responsibility for the pain of the victims of comfort women.”
“This dissertation plagued by historical distortions will be published in an academic journal under the authority of Harvard.” “This paper will be actively used to support the arguments of the Japanese government and Japan’s far-rights that refuse to take legal responsibility while denying the history of the perpetrators. Prospect”.
Earlier, Professor Ramseyre insisted in his thesis “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,” that the comfort women were not forcibly taken, but were voluntarily contracted prostitutes.
Source: Facebook’Korean American Student Association (US-Korea Association)’–– The International Student Association criticized that “Professor Ramsayer’s view has already been refuted by numerous academic sources.”
At this point, he pointed out, “At this point, Professor Ramseyre’s thesis is not explained as a result of a new study, but as a deliberate distortion of history that goes backwards.”
He also told Professor Ramsayer, who refused to clarify the thesis, saying, “It is an irresponsible act as a scholar, and this defames the victims of comfort women.”
Finally, the International Student Association said it would take action to prevent this from happening again.
They declared, “We declare that we will actively promote the correct history in order to correct (distorted history). As an official school organization, we apologize to Professor Ramseyre’s official apology and withdraw the thesis from the journal, and Harvard University’s official condemnation for the thesis. I will file a petition asking for ”
He added, “Our Harvard Undergraduate Korean-American Student Association feels a mission to take action on this situation, and we will not forget the pain our people have suffered, and will continue to strive for correct recognition of history.”
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