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It's not a fact that he's the exemplar of a law forgiving everyone ever convicted for being gay in the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_law https:
by greglindahl 7y ago
It's not a fact that he's the exemplar of a law forgiving everyone ever convicted for being gay in the UK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_law
- dmurray 7y agoThat's 1) editorializing, since the act isn't officially called that, 2) not what I speculated the original copy said and 3) needlessly political. And before you tell me "gay rights aren't a political issue, human rights go beyond politics": a new law being passed by politicians is literally as political a subject as it gets.
- greglindahl 7y agoHuh. The way I remember it, the government first only forgave him, and then after a huge public debate decided to forgive everyone in similar circumstances. But if you think that's editorial and political if mentioned at all, despite being endorsed by all sides of the parliament, I guess that's a valid opinion. It's certainly the case that many people claim that anything objected to by a single person is political. I usually find that the BBC is more clever than that.