Rebuttal of Ramsey’s advocacy in Diplomat▶ Click here to enlarge
It was pointed out that the dissertation of Harvard University professor Mark Ramsey, who edited the claim that the comfort women were prostitutes, could not be protected as academic freedom.
On the 23rd (local time), Lee Yong-sik, a visiting professor at the Department of Law at Georgia State University, head of the U.S. Institute for Legal Development, posted a contributing article on the 23rd (local time) in the diplomatic journal of the U.S. along with Professor Park Chan-woon of Hanyang University Law School, a permanent member of the National Human Rights Commission.
On the 18th, Joe Phillips, associate professors at Underwood International University at Yonsei University, and Joseph, who unfolded advocacy for Professor Ramsey’s thesis in this magazine on the 18th, refute the associate professors of Political Science and Diplomacy at Hanyang University.
In this article, with the subtitle, “The absurd lies and distortions are not protected by academic freedom,” the two professors pointed out the problems of Professor Ramsey’s advocacy one by one.
First of all, they dismissed the arguments of Professors Joe Phillips and Joseph Lee that “Professor Ramzier’s academic integrity is under attack because of his personal connection with Japan” as “is different from the truth.”
Two professors said, “The reason the truth of Ramsay’s thesis is attacked is because they claim that the comfort women were a reasonable contract and fail to present any reliable evidence.”
It is explained that the problem is that Professor Ramsey claims the contract but fails to provide evidence that the contract exists.
In addition, regarding the claim that’the discussion on the comfort women issue is limited in Korea’, it was said, “On socially sensitive issues such as war crimes in Nazi Germany and black slaves in the United States, in Germany and the United States, there is an active advocacy logic due to concerns about the suffering of victims It does not appear,” he pointed out.
The criticism against Professor Ramsey was not because of the nationalist view of Korea, but because of concerns about attempts to justify serious human rights crimes.
Rather, the two professors pointed out that forces such as Joe Phillips and Joseph Lee who promote academic freedom to block legitimate criticism are the forces that hinder productive discussion.
In addition, the two professors added that the logic of Prof. Phillips, who linked issues such as prostitutes and camp village prostitutes 600 years ago, with completely different historical and political contexts, with sex slaves, which are war crimes, does not make sense.
Professor Park is a human rights law expert who has been serving as a standing member of the National Human Rights Commission since January last year.
Professor Lee, an international lawyer, is the head of the Institute for Legal Development, an international law research network in the United States, and is a visiting professor at Georgia State University.
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