{"id":49507,"date":"2016-10-19T00:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49507"},"modified":"2016-10-19T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:38:13","slug":"white-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49507","title":{"rendered":"White Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Nonsense<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vice News<\/a>
\n2016-10-09<\/p>\n

Elspeth Reeve<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Alt-right<\/a> trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think \u201cprove\u201d their whiteness<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew remembers feeling a \u201ctinge of apprehension\u201d when he logged on to 23andMe<\/a>. Several weeks earlier, he\u2019d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers\u2019 DNA<\/a> to estimate where their ancestors came from. But when he clicked on his color-coded ancestry chart, he felt relief: 99.7 percent European. He went to the Reddit<\/a> page \/r\/WhiteRights, where he\u2019s a moderator, and posted a screenshot: \u201cFinally got around to checking my privilege<\/a>,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0At the bottom of the chart, he\u2019d photoshopped in an extra line: \u201c100% Goy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s kind of a running joke that everyone works for the JIDF [Jewish Internet Defense Force<\/a>] or is secretly nonwhite,\u201d explained Andrew, who says he\u2019s a 31-year-old lawyer from\u00a0Washington, D.C.<\/a> \u201cSo when I posted my 23andMe results, I was playing off that.\u201d (Andrew posts on Reddit as slippery_people, but, like quite a few of the white nationalists I\u2019ve spoken to, he doesn\u2019t want his real identity associated with these views.)…<\/p>\n

…23andMe does not test for race. Its main business now is ancestry testing<\/a>, after some early trouble with the FDA<\/a> over claims the service could mine your genes to determine risk factors for disease. The company, based in Mountain View, California<\/a>, received an investment from Google<\/a> in 2007, a year after its founding. It got another boost in 2012 when PBS<\/a> began running \u201cFinding Your Roots<\/a>,\u201d a show where celebrities traced their ancestry with genotyping from 23andMe<\/a>. By June 2015, the company had analyzed the DNA of 1 million customers, though it has faced some<\/a> criticism<\/a> for not having a large enough sample of DNA from people who do not have European heritage…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White Nonsense Vice News 2016-10-09 Elspeth Reeve Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think \u201cprove\u201d their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a \u201ctinge of apprehension\u201d when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he\u2019d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers\u2019 DNA to estimate where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394,20],"tags":[18815,25251,25250],"class_list":["post-49507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-23andme","tag-elspeth-reeve","tag-vice-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49508,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49507\/revisions\/49508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}