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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 Saturday August 19 2017, @09:25AM
NO, you will not. Do not you think we are already familiar with all the alt-right rhetoric, and have not stuck up back up their own anuses? Do you knot gnow that in order for a concept to be relative, it must be relative to some fixed point, that by definition is not relative? Or did you gnot know that figs grow on fig trees, and that these figs are in fact the sexual organs of these trees, and when you ingest these figs, your excrement serves the purpose of the fig tree, not you or your sorry outlaw gang of autoeroticism wankers? Think before you dump, would this be a good place for a fig tree?