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: 1) by ben_white on Friday August 18 2017, @05:04PM (3 children)
I've got a sure fire test to tell the difference. If you show up with Nazi flags and torches you are the former.
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cheers, ben
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 18 2017, @07:31PM (1 child)
What about Tiki torches?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:54PM
Are they using those, as a group, to beat a black dude? [google.com]
Did one of them pull a pistol during the process?
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(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday August 18 2017, @07:34PM
You've described half a test. Let's say someone doesn't, in fact, show up with a Nazi flag or torches (tiki or otherwise). What then?
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