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There's a passage in Alan Turing's autobiography that suggests he performed a non-consensual sexual act on a male friend.* I would certainly not use this as ca
by acer4666 5y ago
There's a passage in Alan Turing's autobiography that suggests he performed a non-consensual sexual act on a male friend.*
I would certainly not use this as cause for renaming the many things we have named after Turing.
*Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 132:
"They were ordinary people, who made Alan feel more at home than did the grand Princeton figures. In their old-fashioned country way, they put Alan and Maurice in the same double bed.
The compartments of life were fractured. Maurice was amazed - he had not had the slightest suspicion. Alan apologised and withdrew at once. Then he blazed out"