It's depressing and disgusting to see people still consider royalty and aristocracy as "one up". So much for freedom, liberal thinking and equality. For sanity

It's depressing and disgusting to see people still consider royalty and aristocracy as "one up". So much for freedom, liberal thinking and equality. For sanity's sake, at least give a thought about all the colonial history and the fact that Alan Turing was convicted for homosexual activity[0] and branded a security risk by the same "crown" and then issued a farcical royal pardon[1] in 2012. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_inde... [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/royal-pardon-for-ww2-code-breaker-dr-alan-turing https://www.gov.uk/government/news/royal-pardon-for-ww2-code... --> "Dr Alan Turing has been given a posthumous pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by the Queen"