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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @10:27PM
Actually, the proper characterization would be "workers' holiday".
...and, unless my knowledge base is lacking, it's only the USA that doesn't have parades and such on that day.
USA.gov, instead, came up with Labor Day (in September) where the parades have military men and equipment, celebrating Imperialism and Capitalism (bosses), apparently.
...and, under the heading of songs you -won't- hear on "Labor" Day, there's "Which Side Are You On?" and "Joe Hill", among others. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [latimes.com]
Noting here that FDR was often called a Socialist (though he was VERY MUCH Pro-Capitalist and, in fact, saved Capitalism), there's Ain't Done Nothin' If You Ain't Been Called A Red [google.com]
...and, under the heading of topics you -won't- hear on "Labor" Day, there's reclaiming The Wagner Act (The National Labor Relations Act of 1935)--which was gutted by Repugs and Dumbocrats in 1947 via Taft-Hartley, among a number of topics. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
You won't hear how Organized Labor could get back its mojo through outreach. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
You especially won't hear how, without unions, wages would plummet. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
(Free-Riders take note.)
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