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25 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Letter by over 1000 signatories, including over 700 economics professors and over 200 game theorists, demanding retraction of Mark Ramseyer's article falsely claiming Korean women held as WW2 sex slaves willingly contracted for prostitution with soldiers.
chwe.net/irle/letter/
Collection of resources for this letter:

chwe.net/irle
Letter from history professors and other concerned scholars asking the International Review of Law and Economics to retract Mark Ramseyer's seriously flawed "research" claiming Korean women held as WW2 sex slaves willingly contracted for prostitution.
sites.google.com/view/concerned…
"[S]cholars aspiring to enter our profession will be greatly dismayed by an article published in a scholarly economics journal that denies the existence of a government-sponsored system of sexual coercion and argues that a ten-year old girl can consent to work as a sex worker."
Racism is alive and well. After I post a letter with 1000 signatories criticizing a White male Harvard professor for writing a misogynistic "law and economics" defense of sex slavery during WWII, my comments are inundated with attacks on Koreans, and Korean women in particular.

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
26 Feb
A brilliant take down by Harvard law professor @JeannieSGersen of a misogynistic "law and economics" article written by Mark Ramsayer justifying sex slavery during WWII. Forcing women to have sex with soldiers is not an economic transaction. It's rape.
newyorker.com/culture/annals…
Here is Mark Ramseyer's earlier (2019) paper attributing the painful memories of WWII sex slaves ("comfort women") to fabrications made up by "liberal professors."
Unbelievable.

law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_…
A 1991 law and economics paper about "private ordering" (same author) titled "Indentured Prostitution in Imperial Japan: Credible Commitments in the Commercial Sex Industry"
Page one is all about buying and selling children....
Something's wrong here.
jstor.org/stable/764879?
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20 Feb
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.
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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.

strib.mn/3aAzBVa
A $10,000 contribution to Maroon & Gold PAC from former University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler. That's a lot. And we also know that Kaler wants the legislators who receive this PAC money to get rid of University Regent Michael Hsu.

After I wrote a letter to the University President, Regents and General Counsel a month ago, and after Maroon & Gold PAC had raised a lot of its money, the University reversed course and asked the PAC to stop using University trademarks and mascots to raise money.
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19 Feb
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.
sites.google.com/view/concerned…
"On page 4 of his article Ramseyer relates the story of a Japanese girl named Osaki who traveled abroad to work at a brothel in Borneo at the age of ten. He uses this example as evidence for his fundamental claims: that women agreed to contracts, that they were paid large sums.."
This Elsevier Journal thinks an article describing how teenage girls entered into "contracts" for sex with soldiers passes "peer review." Does your library pay the $1431 institutional subscription fee for the International Review of Law and Economics?

journals.elsevier.com/international-…
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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.
thecrimson.com/article/2021/2…
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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