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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @07:42PM (7 children)
I know, right? Let's go beat and maim some! It's fun, and nobody will ever call us on it. Let's help start a riot somewhere; I've got a rental car gassed up. You bring the communist flags; I'll bring the bats and chemical spray.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:03PM (6 children)
Look at the apologist trying to project nazi methodology on to his "enemies". Lol, try harder brah.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @09:27PM (5 children)
You're too dense to get it, so I'll spell it out in terms even you might understand...
Nazis: I don't support them.
Intifa thugs: I don't support them.
Riots: I definitely don't support that. Violence crosses the line.
Just because one side is Nazis does not excuse fomenting or participating in a riot.
You can engage in a counterprotest without violence. Otherwise, you're just a thug too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:18PM (4 children)
I went back through the thread and nope, no mentions or calls for violence. Oh, except for you but it is pretty clear you are being sarcastic. I am absolutely 100% superior to any nazi, by the simple virtue of not sharing their ideology or having one that is worse. Personally I try not to hold hatred in my heart as it does more damage to myself than anyone else.
When you react so strongly to condemnations of nazis it really comes off as apologetic garbage, perhaps you should save your outrage for when someone actually advocates violence and rioting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:35PM (3 children)
Missed my point.
There is more than one way to take on Nazi groups.
Picking physical fights with them and rioting is not the way--unless you enjoy killing or maiming. The ones killed or maimed might be your own. Don't be a nihilistic dumbass is all I am saying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @04:55AM
That may have been your point but you tried to get it across with unsubstantiated accusations, bad plan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @04:59AM
Indeed, as I rarely take anything I see at face value, especially when It's being filtered through 'media' applying all sorts of 'spin', I've found myself thinking over the past couple of days, 'This is idiotic, dragging yourself down to (or below) the level of your 'enemy' isn't the way to go, what exactly is the agenda of the people behind these 'anti-nazi' protests?' which then lead me to the following question in an attempt to identify the 'people behind', 'Who benefits the most from all this?'
So far, I'm at a bit of a loss, probably because not being USian I'm not really 100% up to speed with whatever current political machinations are going on over there, and as it seems to be in a somewhat chaotic state of daily/hourly flux thanks to the current CINC, I don't think I'll bother too much trying to keep up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:38AM
Agreed. This is why I prefer snippers. People who with a pair of shears can take out a Nazi at near to a thousand yards. They never see it coming. Or the more mundane approach of outing them on social media, telling their mommas, and waiting for the ensuing wailing. Also, once you know who they are and where they live, you can direct rouge micro black holes that pass through our solar system largely unnoticed, but that will suck in something as small as a human body with no problem, and with no evidence. So you are right, just beating Nazis with sticks and bats, and cudgels, and large root-ends of trees, lambasting them with wet noodles, rawhide thongs, cat-o-nine tails, spraying them with holy water, bucolic acid, bleach (extra-whitening power!), or the old standby, lion urine, or threatening them with physical pain in such a way as to make them loose their bowels, all these methods are below the champions of social justice, democracy, and the American way of life. . . . . Bring out the Bear Jew! Inglorious Bastards, the Antifa are! Oh, shit, Mr. Nazi, you did not think it would come to this? You were sooo wrong.