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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 01:26 PM Aug 2018

Here is why ancestry tests may be dangerous for society

In solving our socioeconomic problems, it is imperative that we dispel the notion of race. Ancestry tests provide an interesting dynamic that may do more harm than good allowing one of the most potent weapons of those who oppress the vast majority of people, possession of new ammunition.

Basic curiosity may be the reason we are rushing to get ancestry tests, but the results may create a false belief that the results make us different. And this is something that plays into the hands of the Plutocracy as it needs to manufacture nonexistent consequential differences to prevent us from seeing what truly differentiates us, class, the few that are robbing and extracting from the masses.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/08/28/ancestry-tests-dangerous/

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Here is why ancestry tests may be dangerous for society (Original Post) egbertowillies Aug 2018 OP
#facknews ! stonecutter357 Aug 2018 #1
My wife had one done. She found out she's a little bit Asian. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #2
from what I have seen KT2000 Aug 2018 #3
+1. I'd like to make every Neonazi take one. Huge numbers of "Aryans" will be shocked lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #9
Yea, No just the opposite happens most of the time njhoneybadger Aug 2018 #4
This looks like a clickbait site. n/t pnwmom Aug 2018 #5
It's Why I Never Click ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #6
Looks? malaise Aug 2018 #7
Ummmm..........Yeah. WillowTree Aug 2018 #8

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
2. My wife had one done. She found out she's a little bit Asian.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 01:53 PM
Aug 2018

Apparently, a lot of "wypipo" are. Genghis Khan fucked half the planet.

I think people will be generally surprised when they have these done. We're not as "purebred" as we think we are.

KT2000

(20,590 posts)
3. from what I have seen
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 01:55 PM
Aug 2018

it is proving that there is no pure race. Humans have traveled the globe for centuries, mixing DNA with other geographic roots. It may be possible at some point to dispense with the issue of race all together.
Whether it is a president, king, oligarch, CEO, they are known by their actions.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. +1. I'd like to make every Neonazi take one. Huge numbers of "Aryans" will be shocked
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 02:37 PM
Aug 2018

to learn they're no more "white" than anybody else.

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