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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @06:53PM (1 child)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nazi apologists who try and whitewash (haha) the issue often have zero clue about how abusive the government has been, and how much special treatment they are receiving for being white. Racist militias are allowed to exist without problem, but the Black Panthers were harassed by the highest levels of federal gov. For fucks sake we've got Nixon and one of his compatriots flat out admitting they pushed policies as part of a race/culture war!!!
We must address this underlying issue, it is a lot bigger than people think and not limited to a few thousand crazy nazi fuckers. It extends outward in a massive black cloud that slowly fades into clear skies, those stuck in the foggy boundary areas are the "states rights!" apologists. Plenty of state's rights people are not racist, but there is a good deal of overlap between the two groups.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 18 2017, @11:52PM
If you ever should want a clue, I'd start with finding out when those events happened in. For example, slavery was ended a bit over 150 years ago. The Black Panthers' issues with unjust law enforcement harassment really were from 40-50 years as was the terms of Nixon. It's either clueless or dishonest to pretend that nothing has changed since.