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Alan Turing Given Royal Pardon

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  • #2
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,409 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    A pardon is a little shabby. 'Pardon' implies that there was a transgression to be forgiven. Turing did nothing wrong. If he hadn't been a mathematical genius we'd never have heard of him, yet he still would still have had to live with the consequences of being gay in the times he lived in, as did many others who didn't have his gifts.

    As an acknowledgement of a great wrong done, it's a gesture I suppose. A more fitting official gesture would be an apology though...


  • #3
    TheBody
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    endacl wrote: »
    A pardon is a little shabby. 'Pardon' implies that there was a transgression to be forgiven. Turing did nothing wrong. If he hadn't been a mathematical genius we'd never have heard of him, yet he still would still have had to live with the consequences of being gay in the times he lived in, as did many others who didn't have his gifts.

    As an acknowledgement of a great wrong done, it's a gesture I suppose. A more fitting official gesture would be an apology though...

    Couldn't agree more.


  • #4
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    endacl wrote: »
    A pardon is a little shabby. 'Pardon' implies that there was a transgression to be forgiven. Turing did nothing wrong. If he hadn't been a mathematical genius we'd never have heard of him, yet he still would still have had to live with the consequences of being gay in the times he lived in, as did many others who didn't have his gifts.

    As an acknowledgement of a great wrong done, it's a gesture I suppose. A more fitting official gesture would be an apology though...

    100% agree. I posted the story earlier in Computers. His conviction should have been quashed. It's a small gesture but long overdue.

    I wonder if the establishment had been aware of his sexual orientation when he was doing his work in Bletchley Park, but chose to overlook it due to its importance (and only when the war was won did it turn against him)?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Not a fan of this stuff tbh. It's like a tokenistic kind of white-washing that makes no difference to anything. How he was treated should be remembered for what it was.


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