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20 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Amazing. Yet another paper is exposed for covering up horrific atrocities. Revisionist history is not scholarship.

Harvard professor Ramseyer to revise paper on 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan: Cambridge handbook editor yna.kr/AEN20210220002…
Before publishing, Harvard "law and economics" professors should consult research Harvard is already aware of on the Kantō Massacre and other historical events. Revisionism is the historical equivalent of fake news.
harvard-yenching.org/research/the-g…
A Harvard professor is on pretty thin ice if someone such as myself criticizes his publications for being “revisionist history” and the only people who come to his defense are extreme nationalists from Japan or any other country.
Many of the comments I am getting here say things about Koreans that are shockingly similar to lies that were said repeatedly about groups of people in the right wing German press in the 1930s. One constant in history is that hate kills

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19 Feb
This is corrupt. A PAC funded with large contributions from past University of Minnesota presidents and current University regents, and using University trademarks, made campaign contributions to influence state lawmakers’ selection of new regents.

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This letter is a devastating take down of dishonest and unsubstantiated arguments underlying Mark Ramseyer's article claiming that women kept as WWII sex slaves entered valid contracts as prostitutes. The Journal should retract the article immediately.
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15 Feb
A District of Columbia prosecutor needs to open a criminal investigation, subpoena evidence and witnesses and indict everyone who incited the January 6 insurrection or conspired with the rioters, including Trump.
@COFinkelstein and I discuss the case here.
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Trump "could be tried for “rebellion or insurrection” (18 U.S. Code § 2383), for example, formulated as a conspiracy crime (18 U.S.C. § 371), or "conspiracy to engage in rebellion or insurrection.""
"Alternatively, he could be charged with “seditious conspiracy” (18 U.S.C. § 2384), a similar charge based on the concept of “sedition” rather than “rebellion.”"
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15 Feb
"Despite a groundswell of activism against Ramseyer, and student calls for Harvard to respond to the backlash, top University officials have remained silent on the issue."
Shame.
After the Epstein fiasco, Harvard should take a stand against sex slavery.
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This should not ignite a spat between Japan and Korea. Both should stand up to an arrogant American man who writes a deceptive and sloppy "law and economics" analysis of rape and subjugation of women during one of the most painful periods in the history of both Japan and Korea.
Here we go. More attacks on Korea while the arrogant American man sits back in his chair at Harvard and writes about the "law and economics" of selling Asian women to the highest bidder. Disgusting.
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I ran for Senate in 2018 and gave this speech because I was sick and tired of the Senate being bullied by Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and their cronies.
I lost that race.
We have a far better president now, but the Senate remains much the same.
A vote to abolish the filibuster would have put a stop to Mitch McConnell's extortion and told him to go back to his desk and put a lid on it. Trump's trial would have proceeded with witnesses. The Senate would have done its job. Instead, to save the filibuster they backed down.
Mitch McConnell threatened to shut down all senate business during Trump's trial if witnesses were called. With 50 votes senate Democrats could have changed the rules, banned the filibuster and told Mitch to put it... where the sun doesn't shine.
He's a bully. Stand up to him.
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13 Feb
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.
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