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Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows
chrb writes "Several British news sources have recently reported on the growing campaign that calls for an apology to Alan Turing for his persecution by the British government. The petition to the Prime Minister was started by John Graham-Cumming, who has also written to the Queen requesting a Knighthood for Turing, but admits that a pardon is 'unlikely,' saying, 'The most important thing to me is that people hear about Alan Turing and realize his incredible impact on the modern world, and how terrible the impact of prejudice was on him.'"
Or, maybe, we could get over this notion that guilt is hereditary and stop asking people to apologise for things that were done by others often before they were born.
Well, in the case of invasions, empires and stuff, goods and property were inherited, so guilt should, too.
I live in South America, descend from Basque immigrants, and I believe most of us are to blame for the extermination of the native people in my country. We are to blame, because we benefit from their land. Most Europeans are to blame, for lots of stuff that is wrong in Latin America because their current riches are inherited partly from stuff they got from the work of South American people, destroying most of their cities and culture in the process.
Then that former foreign minister of Denmark is an ignorant dumbass.
An apology from the government is a symbolic act, acknowledging that past governments did wrong and heinous things to individuals. It's a recognition that evil was committed against individuals, and that we will strive to remember it always.
You filthy islamophobe !
Arabs are just stoopid. Just this morning I got in an argument with a cute Arab about proper parking of his huge oversized van. No, you don't park it half-way in a crossroads, so that it completely blocks view from one street to the other, and vice-versa.
As expected, the argument quickly degenerated into physical threats (he wanted to break the phone with which I had snapped his mis-parked van), and name calling.
Ironically enough, he (whose people are at war against Israel) asked me, a Luxembourger (one of the many countries victims of persecution in WWII) how many jews I killed 60 years ago. At least, if you insult people, try to come up with something more intelligent!
Too bad this gorgeous body didn't have a decent brain to go with it :-(