interesting article "The Census Has Revealed A More Multiracial U.S. One Reason? Cheaper DNA Tests"

submitted by Girondin from self.debatealtright

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/28/1030139666/2020-census-results-data-race-multiracial-dna-ancestry-test-mixed-biracial

TLDR: Whites are afraid to call themselves white anymore, their using whatever fractional percentage they get on a DNA test to call themselves multi-racial. We are reaching new levels of "cherokee princess syndrome".

some quotes

Exactly how big of an effect these tests had on census results is difficult to pin down. But many researchers agree that as the cost of at-home kits fell in recent years, they have helped shape an increasing share of the country's ever-changing ideas about the social construct that is race.

the wide reach of the marketing efforts of companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com, which operates the AncestryDNA service, should not be underestimated, warns Jenifer Bratter, a sociologist at Rice University who studies multiracial identity. "The public has kind of taken in the notion that you can find out 'who you are' with a test that's supposed to analyze your genes," Bratter says. "What that does for anyone who does work in racial identity and racial demography is cause us to think through how genetic ideas of race are in public circulation."

its finding suggest adults 50 and up are most likely to self-identify as multiracial on surveys after receiving a report about the potential roots of their family tree based on a DNA analysis of their saliva. The study of more than 100,000 adults registered as potential bone marrow donors in the U.S. also found that DNA test takers were especially likely to identify with three or more racial groups.

"You're going to have a lot more people who are not part of marginalized groups in terms of their social experiences claiming to be part of marginalized groups," (((Roth))) says about a likely effect of ancestry tests on the census. "When it comes to understanding discrimination or inequality, we're going to have very inaccurate estimates."

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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't buy this for a second. Only a tiny percentage of whites are doing stuff like that. It's in no way statistically significant.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can bet if the source is NPR the motive is Jewish, i.e. they want to convince people that a) we actually don't have ENOUGH diversity and b) Whites are devious liars.

[–]Nombre27 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not surprising. Being a minority has become heavily subsidized and rewarded. I don't blame people for playing that game. The fact that they're doing this suggests their aware of the racial reality of our times and that it's likely they're resentful of having to play the game this way.

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

I look white but my huge ginourmous penis says I have some brown sugar in the wood pile.

[–]sylla94 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

niggers having bigger dicks is a meme

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not surprising. People always seek to possess privileged traits in society and despite the prevailing wisdom minority status is a privileged one.

Also I've seen half a dozen 'DNA test reveal' videos that are on YouTube of white girls openly disappointed to discover they're white -- there's also that pretty funny clip of Jessica Alba discovering she's mostly Iberian and failing to cope. Most of the videos are of really pretty blonde and fair girls as well and they visibly wilt when they discover they're just plain old 'white bread' European stock.

That's psychological abuse and should be just as upsetting as the old test where black children prefer to play with the white doll which was an important part in the drive for school integration. No one gives a damn though.

[–]88BitSorelianism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think this is that far fetched of an idea, the census said 57.8% and it was estimated to be 59%, it isn't too wild to say 1.2% of people now identify as biracial because they found .5% African DNA in their test.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"You're going to have a lot more people who are not part of marginalized groups in terms of their social experiences claiming to be part of marginalized groups," (((Roth)))

What you see much more Mr Roth is a certain minority who pretends to be White when they want to lambast and insult the majority group but then switch back to a minority identity when it's useful. White people are just looking for an identity that isn't a shameful one full of guilt and loaded with the baggage of alleged historical wrong doing. It's not malicious it's more desperation due to the fact that the Roth's, Berg's, Blatt's and Steins of the world have spent a century turning this society into one that at first respected the 'other' into one now that fetishizes the other and despises itself.

Yet now the Roth's want to come along and tell the Smith's that they're wicked if they try to identify as the other. In the end what's a Smith to do? I mean this is just an intolerable situation and if you were really as smart as you say you'd be packing your bags and getting on the first plane to Tel Aviv. Data shows us that around 30 percent know it's the Berg's, Blatt's, Roth's and Steins of the world who are responsible for this even in the most philo-Semitic civilization that has ever existed.

[–]ChairmanLmaoSupreme Dear Leader Chairman Lmao Zedong 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've long recommended identifying as non-white on censuses, especially if you actually have known non-white ancestry and can feasibly get away with it.

They want the official White numbers as high as possible, which is why they fudge how MENAs and Hispanics are raced. We want the opposite of what they do in practically every case—we want the official White number as low as possible. Don't play their game by allowing everyone to believe that the population is more White than it actually is. It is a total advantage for our enemies and a total disadvantage for us. The battlefield needs to be taken to 'death ground', i.e. to the corner from which we cannot escape without fighting and winning. It's better to reach that sooner rather than later when their forces are even stronger. White minoritization/majority-minority status is when death ground is reached, and they're going to delay announcing this for as long as they possibly can.

[–]Jacinda 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

#Flight From White

I am not sure if he coined the term but Sailer has been posting about this phenomena for a while now.

[–]TheWorldToCome 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

not ggunna lie I dont check off the box "white" anymore on things when applying to jobs or trying to get government benefits, why would i. It pushes me to the bottom of the priority list. I check "other"