SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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, @09:19PM (1 child)
At the exact same day, a black guy killed 3 women with a hammer in a horrific bloody scene.
Since it wasn't a racist attack by your worst enemy, white people, it barely even made the news.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:04PM
Murder = bad
Ideological murder = worse
I think we have a few hundred years of violence against minorities that drastically weights the importance here. There is relatively little true anti-white sentiment going around, but there is a metric shit-ton of anti-nazi sentiment. It just so happens that nazis tend to be overwhelmingly white.
Get off your high horse bud, stop trying to compare the two problems. It just makes you look like an apologist who simply can't stand that the hate and derision has been correctly targeted against your nazi scum friends (I presume, but perhaps you're just stupid and angry about racism against whites not being as big of an issue as racism BY whites)