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13 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Another shoe drops in Harvard's WW2 revisionist history scandal. Here's another "law and economics" paper saying captive Korean "comfort women" were prostitutes and attacking "liberal professors" for thinking the sex wasn't voluntary.
Rape is a war crime.
law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_…
Hello Professor Ramseyer: I am relatively conservative for a professor, but I still think that soldiers who rape women from an occupied country -- or women from any country for that matter -- commit a war crime.
Rape in war zones and in occupied countries is not unique to Imperial Japan. Many Western countries have committed similar crimes. Nobody defends the honor of Japan by defending an arrogant American professor who thinks the entire thing is a "law and economics" transaction. Sad.
The Olin Foundation used to be a very conservative foundation.
But rape in a war zone as a "law and economics" transaction?
Please....

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A law professor writes that WW2 era rape of Korean women and girls by the Japanese Imperial Army was a consensual "contract," that they were willing prostitutes.
The International Review of Law and Economics should withdraw the paper immediately. Shameful.
upi.com/7073363t
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A law professor's "law and economics" paper argues that ‘Comfort Women’ in Imperial Japan were voluntarily recruited and employed pursuant to a contract.
What's this?
A "contractarian" analysis of war crimes and rape?
thecrimson.com/article/2021/2…
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Huh?
So rape is just a contract?
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Wonder how that goes over in Korea....
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Corrupt.

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