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While it was wrong that Turing was persecuted, this feels to me a bit like trying to re-write history. The same goes for British soldiers in WW1 who were execu
by cabalamat 17y ago
While it was wrong that Turing was persecuted, this feels to me a bit like trying to re-write history.
The same goes for British soldiers in WW1 who were executed for cowardice and recently pardoned.
- lucumo 17y agoHow is it rewriting history? It seems to me that it's acknowledging that this has happened in the past and that it was wrong. Acknowledging past mistakes helps us prevent them from happening in the future.
- jacquesm 17y agoNonsense. These issues are to be tackled one by one. What was done to Alan Turing and other homosexuals in that period was absolutely despicable and apology, even though much too late is a way of recognizing this. For an encore, there is plenty of stuff done TODAY to homosexuals all over the world that we would do well to recognize and to act upon. There are only people, any attempt at discriminating some subgroup is wrong. Nobody is trying to rewrite history here, it is rare that governments will admit to errors and it takes persistence by individuals living today to 'educate' the governments of their responsibilities. Let's hope that actions like this will make people think twice before doing stupid stuff today. People living in future times are the ultimate judges.
- ig1 17y agoDo you also think Germany apologising for the holocaust is rewriting history ? We apologies for our actions to acknowledge that what we did under the guise of governance was a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against our fellow humans. To be able to take the moral ground against those who commit those very same crimes today.