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White Nationalists Are Flocking to Genetic Ancestry Tests. Some Don't Like What They Find

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

tonyPick writes:

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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @04:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @04:22PM (#555956)
    http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/chelsea-handler-breaks-down-after-discovering-her-familys-nazi-ties-201378

    Spent the last year screaming nazi at everyone.. Hey her family was nazis!

    comedy gold.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:45PM (#556064)

    Not quite the same thing, and not some sort of comedy gold. But sure, keep trying to equalize racist fuckers with people who don't like racist fuckers. Yeah, makes sense.

    Just an FYI here: all your comment does is cement you as a nazi yourself, or at best a sympathizer. If you are just complaining about liberals using the term "nazi" then you're an ignorant fool and should go review some of the protest footage from Charlottesville and read up on some of the propaganda. If you still can't see that we do indeed have a nazi problem then you're beyond hope.