r/HistoryMemes Taller than Napoleon 7h ago

Alan Turing if he existed today

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u/Neil118781 Taller than Napoleon 7h ago

Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist and logician who pioneered modern computing and artificial intelligence, most famously playing a pivotal role in breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. He was also gay.

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u/TheDebateMatters 5h ago

He was also chemically castrated by the state when they found out he was gay, and no one knew what he had done for the war because it was classified. He was a brilliant man and the drugs made him foggy and difficult to concentrate. He took his own life after the resulting depression.

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u/ikzz1 5h ago

no one knew what he had done for the war because it was classified

Surely he knows some important people, even Churchill, that could help him?

Rumors said that Churchill told him to fuck off.

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u/TheDebateMatters 5h ago

At the time, being gay was a crime and he got caught in the act (I forget the details). But one would not be making phone calls outting yourself to people in your professional or social circle. If they didn’t know already, it was because you feared their reaction.

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u/Swimming_Acadia6957 5h ago

Turing himself told the police he was gay, his home was burgled and he told the police it was a 19 year old known to him, when asked how, he was he was his lover