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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.
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday August 18 2017, @04:51PM (4 children)
Found the racist! There is no such thing as "white", and no such thing as "white culture"! You would think some living in Switzerland would know this! Do you speak Italian? Or Allemange? Or Francias?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:49PM
I suppose you could turn around the "media invented the African American!!ermagerd!1!" thing and say that 90s media (1890s) invented the "white American," because everybody knows there's only English, French, Germans, Poles, and Irish. Personally I think we should build a wall and deport all the Germans, Poles, and Irish!
In fact, I'm part German! Deport me! For the love of god deport me please!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:45AM (1 child)
There is no such thing as Black or Black Culture either.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:28AM
Strangely enough, there is! Take your "average" American that is "white". They are not white, they are not even "white European", they are going to be Polish, Italian, German, English, Scot, Irish, Russian, Lithuanian, Spanish, or whatever and many combinations of these and mixtures of Arabic, Egyptian, Lebanese, Jewish, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Indian, Australian, as well all Narragansett, Potawamie, Iroquis, Creek, Seminole, Mohawk, Chocktaw, Pawnee, Mandan, Hopi, Absarokee, Nez Perce, Gro Ventre, Shoshone, Modoc, Spokane, Tualip, Kwaquital, Tillamook, and a bunch more. But they are never just "white", and it is redundant or superflous to add it to the European heritage.
Now with African-Americans, due to the inhuman institution of chattel slavery, they are just Black, because they usually have no heritage from Africa, they usually do not know what tribe there family may have originally descended from, and in fact they have had to resort to DNA testing to even have some idea of where they came from. And their whole genealogy may be hidden due to the fact that they were bred like animals, or raped by their "white" owners, not allowed to have family and lineage. So there is such a thing as "Black", it was created by "white" racism and the destruction of people and their families. You I guess you could argue that there is a "white" identity back-formed by the violent oppression that made "Black" necessary. But that is all that this "white" is, violent inhuman racism.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @05:11AM
Bradley13 speaks American, you insensitive clod!