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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 16 Aug 2017

    The revenge of DNA: White nationalists take ancestry tests-- and don’t like what they find. https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/16/white-nationalists-genetic-ancestry-test/ … @ericboodman @statnews

    11:19 AM - 16 Aug 2017
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      1. Duke of Wickenmeir‏ @ProfessorKayoz 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Sir, your tests are in, and we have some potentially upsetting information for you: Not only are you not German, you may not even be human.

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      2. Lord Snark‏ @BRLong1010 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Just wait until they find out the DNA of Europeans is mixed with that of Neanderthals. DNA from Africans is not. Oops!

        1 reply 3 retweets 8 likes
      3. BBMM‏ @bigbramama 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BRLong1010 @sapinker and

        whats so wrong with neanderthals?

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      4. Lord Snark‏ @BRLong1010 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @bigbramama @sapinker and

        Nothing. I assume some of them are fine people...🙄

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      5. BBMM‏ @bigbramama 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BRLong1010 @sapinker and

        ikr🙄

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      1. Marjorie Meldrum‏ @MeldrumMarjorie 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        This is marvellous. Nothing like a few(tainted) genes haha. Science at its best!!

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      1. John Colapinto‏ @JohnColapinto 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        And wait'll they find out Ancestry has sold their DNA info to health insurers. Surely this is the data-mining of the most craven sort.

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      2. WhatWorldDoYouWant?‏ @troublingtome 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        They'll always have-#UnitedStainsOnAmerica! Trump+Nazis+KKK+ White Supremacists‼️🤬😡pic.twitter.com/B7UQFMtUYC

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      1. Chris Fetterly‏ @ChrisFetterly 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        A timely example of the blowback effect. #scicomm

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      2. Marjorie Meldrum‏ @MeldrumMarjorie 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        We are all Africans 😋

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      3. Peter Taylor‏ @petetaylor97 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @MeldrumMarjorie @sapinker and

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/ … Apparently not.

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      4. Marjorie Meldrum‏ @MeldrumMarjorie 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @petetaylor97 @sapinker and

        I read the piece. I'm not convinced the new species isn't basically a dry hole. Only more examples with dating will ultimately determine.

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      2. Charles Kimbrell‏ @CDKimbrell 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @SuMagnificencia and

        My heart bleeds for them.

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      2. John‏ @johnpm 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Hahahaha They found out, like us all, they were descended from out of Africa

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      1. Alæstor Weissman‏ @_Alaestor 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        when your claimed genetic purity turns out to be irrelevant to who you are as a person, how can you still dehumanize & group others by it?

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      2. Elblanc0‏ @el_blanc0 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @EricBoodman @statnews

        Many from recent protests seem to have Eastern European ancestry, which wouldn't have gone over that well with the real Nazis.

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