Now THAT was bullying!
Personally, I feel like none of those kids could have had it as bad as Turing did and even then, I wonder why he couldn’t just leave the UK and be gay and brilliant someplace else.
But this speaks to the ultimate stupidity of letting fear dictate your actions. If there had been a World War III, this man could have saved countless more lives. Hell, if he hadn’t killed himself in ‘54 he might have ushered in the modern age of computers decades earlier. Maybe he’d have invented the iPad.
Thanks to stupid, useless homophobia, we’ll never know.
But it’s not enough to just blame the homophobics out there.
It’s also our leaders that make no sense. How DADT or any kind of homophobia is tolerated in 21st Century America is testament to our shitty, shitty leaders who take a stand like they haven’t any legs.
Obama says bullying isn’t a right of passage—my ass it isn’t! Everyone gets bullied—but this is all beside the point. The real issue is irrational fear. Obama should speak out against irrational fear of ANYthing.
Gays, Muslims, terrorists—OH WAIT… some irrational fear Obama *wants* us to feel. :(
