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dreamweaverBritish Government Gives Official Apology to Alan Turing for Homophobia
Ya know what? I'm kinda tired of apologies after the fact. The man was instrumental in defeating the Nazis and they treated him like trash. An apology 55 years after the fact is much too little too late. It's an empty gesture.
Chemical castration. That was obscene and wrong in more ways than I can bear to talk about. It was none of their fuckin' business who he was having sex with as long as it was adult and consensual. They treated him almost as badly as the Nazis treated gay people. All that was lacking was a concentration camp and a number. The attitude was the same.
It is inexcusable, and inhumane the treatment he received after helping to win a war to save their sorry asses.
Maybe I'm just a hard nosed 'ol bitch, but an apology 55 years after defiling the man's body in that criminal way, doesn't count for much in my view.
Ya know what? I'm kinda tired of apologies after the fact. The man was instrumental in defeating the Nazis and they treated him like trash. An apology 55 years after the fact is much too little too late. It's an empty gesture.
Chemical castration. That was obscene and wrong in more ways than I can bear to talk about. It was none of their fuckin' business who he was having sex with as long as it was adult and consensual. They treated him almost as badly as the Nazis treated gay people. All that was lacking was a concentration camp and a number. The attitude was the same.
It is inexcusable, and inhumane the treatment he received after helping to win a war to save their sorry asses.
Maybe I'm just a hard nosed 'ol bitch, but an apology 55 years after defiling the man's body in that criminal way, doesn't count for much in my view.
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Date: September 12th, 2009 06:45 am (UTC)I imagine that the Prime Minister's office - the office, that is, not necessarily Gordon - have regular conflabs to look at what petitions have come in (possibly subtitled 'What're the hoi polloi whingeing about now?'). Then they pick a few that'll make them look good, give the spec to one of the speechwriters, who gives it to an underling, then it comes back, they polish it up, Gordon signs it, and they throw it to the public like a bone.
I may be too cynical.