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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @05:32PM (3 children)
despite the nerds below nitpicking about "white culture" as a pissy nerd way of trying to change the subject to make you look like a nazi. your point is true. the media scum is purposely picking the most radical site they can find and saying here (an obvious neo nazi/fbi website) is what a "white nationalist" is. even though "white nationalist" just means someone who wants to have his nation(whatever form that might take) be made up of people that are like him/her/pronoun. whether that is achievable or even advisable/desirable is another matter. many white nationalists don't focus on hate of other races, but of dealing with the problems of the "white race". they are demonized as nazis. some white nationalists probably are, but some aren't. trying to help your own people (however you determine that for yourself) doesn't necessarily have to be an offensive strategy against others and doesn't automatically make you a national socialist or a fascist but they want the tv watchers to believe it does.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @06:22PM
Yes, it is true, he is a Nazi. Repeat: there is no "white".
"Whiteness of the Whale", Moby Dick, Herman Melville. [americanliterature.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:25PM (1 child)
Can't believe you posted that nonsense with a straight face.
You aren't just a nazi, you're a fucking PUSSY nazi! At least you've been figured out that murder and genocide are a bad thing, but I bet that little inhibition will disappear as soon as you are surrounded by other nazi wannabes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @10:00AM
Just can't stop quoting from Moby Dick! Cant' help but think that Queeqeg would approve.
It is the whiteness of the alt-right that above all things appalled me. Just, evil, and not an unblameable evil, like an albino, but the evil of a speaker of the house, or a President, that persists in artificial colouration of the skin. They are "white", but at the same time go to great lengths to not be. Therein lies the secret, the abomination that is the whiteness of the alt-right. And it would continue to be so, even if no Ahab sought vengeance, or no Anti-fascists sought to harpoon the alt-right's members of unusual size. (Why are most American Nazi's so fat? Is this Melville's fault?)