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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by aikah on Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:47AM (#8532581)
This isnt a bigotery contest hey? I was talking from the point of view of someone who has the greatest respect for what Turing has done.I mean that's a shame that everything he has done for his country mattered very little when he was judged for being gay.
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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by omonra on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:06AM (#8532654)
Bigotry is a wrong word to use (afaik) in a historical context. It simply means 'what we consider unacceptable by today's social norms'.

It was absolutely stupid and unjust (since most upper classes were involved in buggery in school anyways) - but calling it bigoted is like saying 'it was so yellow of them to do'.

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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:10AM (#8532677)
OK, maybe I mis-read your original comment. It came across as being very anti-UK:

"That's one of the greatest shame of UK,it symbolizes bigotery in its purest form."

but I accept I might have read stronger sentiment into that than was intended.

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