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It’s the inverse of what young black Americans are doing with the genetic tests….
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A user named “eagleshigh” [posted:]“Oy vey. My ancestry dna results are back,” Eagles wrote, linking to a chart showing 7 percent African ancestry and 22 percent Native American. Someone reassured him, suggesting he hadn’t come by the genes by choice: “There is no way that anyone’s lineage avoided rape…” Another said he was “deffo mostly White.”
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For the white supremacist posters on alt-right forums, rape isn’t a horrific crime so much as it’s instrumental. “There is no way that anyone’s lineage avoided rape” is a dismissal of the victim of rape who’s one of the original poster’s ancestors. The act of rape is subsumed as just another part of the posters’ particular conception of whiteness.
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