13-06-2024, 06:42 PM
(13-06-2024, 06:03 PM)RobGea wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[1. Yes , Turing was awesome.
The circumstances leading to his death were horrible, The British government apologised in 2009 and in 2013 Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon.
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2. Ethnicity questions, i dont like them either, but Government statisitics.
Government needs to know if its treating people differently, so ironically it has to ask people to provide their differences.
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Dear RobGea,
Yes, I know about the "A.Turing, a Royal sorry".
However, in similar situations, many states or governments do not apologize. Such apologies should not make this same kind of problem forgotten because the problems have not been solved in people's minds. For example, the British Library continues to ask people racist questions on their membership forms.
Moreover, even though apologies have been made on similar issues, racism and discrimination continue in a changing form. I don't want to multiply examples here so as not to extend the topic, but I have also been exposed to various forms of racism and discrimination. For this reason, I can admit that I may be a little sensitive on these issues.
In my opinion, the British Library asks here, "Are white people or black or Asian people coming to us more to do research or read books?" This question can be answered with this kind of statistical approach too. If he can reach this type of answer, this is a kind of racism. In my VM-related research (just after I had answered those questions to fill out such a form), I was kept waiting for more than half a day to access a book held by the library. For this reason, I shared this BL survey form in my VM-related book too. Moreover, this survey was not conducted voluntarily. I filled it out compulsorily because I was told that I could get a membership card after filling out the survey. (I was not told that I could become a member even if I did not fill out this survey.)