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Alan Turing: The Truth

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28.06.2026

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Alan Turing: The Truth

Given the facts, it’s impossible to hold up Alan Turing as a historical figure to be admired and imitated. 

J.R. Dunn | June 28, 2026

We all know who Alan Turing is. A major exhibit of Pride Month, the gay world’s pet scientific genius. He invented the computer and built the first one. He won WW II for the Allies by breaking the German Enigma code, and had to fight the entire British establishment to do it.  In the end, he was castrated by an ungrateful British government for being gay. It was in the movies, so it must be true.

There’s an annoying but understandable habit among minorities of making extravagant claims for past achievements. Take the 332nd Fighter Group, the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, who fought in Italy during WW II (the same war that Turing was busy winning) The 332nd, we’re solemnly assured, never lost a single bomber in all its missions escorting bomber formations.

None of the Tuskegee pilots ever made this claim. They never made it because it was absurd. They were flying against the Luftwaffe, one of the most experienced and lethal air forces in the world. Everybody lost aircraft against........

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