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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, @07:37PM
No Trump got elected on a platform of lies and hatred of liberals. You can keep trying to convert the latent and overt racism into ancestral pride, but no one else is buying that shtick. Only the extremist liberals say all conservatives are racist, just like only the most extreme conservatives spout conspiracy nonsense and believe liberals are coming to kill them / take their guns / turn them gay.
You are falling for a polarizing LIE. Take pride in your culture, but as soon as you cross into white supremacy then fuck yeah you'll get called out for that shit. If you don't have the good sense to condemn the nasty parts of your ancestry then you're going to be lumped in with them. Doing / saying nothing and pretending like bigotry is not a massive problem in the US will only get your negative responses.