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Amazing contributions towards defeating the Axis. Response? "Yeah... but, at the time, being gay was illegal, so, ya know."
by bdg 15y ago
Amazing contributions towards defeating the Axis. Response? "Yeah... but, at the time, being gay was illegal, so, ya know."
- VMG 15y agoThat was not the response. The actual response It is tragic that Alan Turing was convicted of an offence which now seems both cruel and absurd-particularly poignant given his outstanding contribution to the war effort. However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/feb/07/alan-turing-pardon-lord-mcnally-lord-sharkey-computers http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/feb/07/alan...