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posted by mrpg on Friday August 18 2017, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the color-me...-anything dept.

Over at StatNews is a story on a recent trend where low cost commercial DNA testing is resulting in a number of White Nationalists taking genetic tests, and sometimes they don't like the results that come back.

The article looks at research on how they respond to the sometimes unexpected results:

[...] In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years' worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.

[...] About a third of the people posting their results were pleased with what they found. "Pretty damn pure blood," said a user with the username Sloth. But the majority didn't find themselves in that situation. Instead, the community often helped them reject the test, or argue with its results.

Some rejected the tests entirely, saying that an individual's knowledge about his or her own genealogy is better than whatever a genetic test can reveal. [...] Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don't matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy "that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry," Panofsky said.


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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday August 18 2017, @02:20PM (4 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday August 18 2017, @02:20PM (#555884) Journal

    What does HIPPA (mere legislation which can be voted away, not a Constitutional protection (for all those are worth)) have that makes it capable of standing up against a pure power play? You think some mid-level hospital administrator is going to give his or her life to valiantly and futilely protect your medical records against cops who'll just shoot right through that copy of HIPPA?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:24PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:24PM (#556047)

    HIPPA

    What does some island [openstreetmap.org] have to do with it? GP was taking about HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:55PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:55PM (#556071)

      ^^

      That is what the concern needs to be. As I said, go read up on HeLa cell line for the most well known example. Combine that with involuntary DNA extraction (There was some documented examples of this during the late clinton/early bush years in Texas. Feds were getting DNA samples from newborn children at the hospital without the parents consent.)

      ACA is one way of 'legitimizing' that activity by claiming since the feds helped pay for your medical care they recieve access to your medical records (Which I will note HIPPA only involves disclosure of to non-government 3rd parties. Go read it, there are already exceptions!)

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:31PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:31PM (#556096)

        I still don't see what this all has to do with a Canadian island.

        Are you talking about crustaceans [wikipedia.org] maybe? Are the lobster people up to no good again?