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A meme featuring a colorized portrait of Alan Turing set against a circuit-pattern background. Bold text reads: "Moral indecency is persecuting a genius-hero to death because you feared his sexuality." Smaller text beside the portrait says, "Alan Turing protected millions of lives, but who protected him?" The bottom line asks, "And who will you protect, or persecute, today?" The design uses bold black and blue font to emphasize key words.

Alan Turing: Difference, Discomfort, and the People We Discard

Alan Turing helped end WWII early by cracking the Nazi Enigma code. His reward? Arrest, chemical castration, and eventual suicide—because he was gay. His story reminds us: being different isn’t the danger. Erasing difference is. Comfort isn’t morality. Kindness is.

Culture

Meridith Byrne

Jun 234 min read