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These meme reduces him from a brilliant scientist to "lol he gay" just like the British government did after the war. Why do people upvote this homophobic shit?
I took it as a celebration of his life, with a dash of "Hey, as a gay man, life is way better, today."
I'm not sure "reduces him (Alan Turing) from a brilliant scientist" is possible, on Lemmy.
We don't have saints here, but if that ever changes, Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace will probably be our ~~first and second~~ second and third saints (edit: apologies to Fred Rogers. I feel silly.).
Edit: Heck, this is fun. Here's a proposal for our first round inductee Saints of Lemmy candidates:
Then for consideration to complete our first induction year:
And if living people can be inducted:
I might keep returning to this list. Lots of folks deserve credit here.
How is it homophobic to depict him ignoring some annoying chuds and checking out useful new tech instead
Homophobic might be a bit far but it is sexist and stupid. Not terribly different from saying that if Marie Curie were alive she'd go straight to tinder instead of entering the debate about atomic energy.