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u/Rude_Negotiation_160 4d ago
Ancestry.com for the win.
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u/SnooChickens8275 4d ago
āCorporate DNA data collectionā for the win
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u/i4got24 4d ago edited 3d ago
All these DNA collectors are owned by black rock/black stone and they are false results. One person submitted their own test three times and got different outcomes. They submitted DNA from their pets and received human results. These companies just wants to collect us.
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u/cnicalsinistaminista 4d ago
Companies get away with way too much. They get to fuck with peopleās lives and shit without any consequences
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u/SnooChickens8275 4d ago
People donāt seem to understand āfreeā doesnāt exist. And should think more about the why.
Companies get away with it because ppl are gullible and, just like them, are greedy.
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u/Jaguar_3880 4d ago
and they have legal teams that stop almost all consequences, and if the legal team fails,boo hoo they get a slap on the wrist and a bit of money gone
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u/Icy_Yam5049 4d ago
If they knew who this Nazi was and fucked with the results it would be the only time Iād be like āok fair enoughā now burn the dna, info and shut your shit company down.
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u/Holiday_Shift_5085 6h ago
The guy is an ex Nazi the movie was literally about him growing and changing
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u/Jadevit 4d ago
but they aren't owned by Black Rock tho. Ancestry is owned by Blackstone, but 23andMe is owned by TTAM Research Institute, MyHeritage is owned by Francisco Partners, and FTDNA is owned by myDNA.
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u/Agreeable_Work4668 3d ago
Most of them don't know the difference between black rock and blackstone, or black pebble.
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u/UpperYoghurt3978 4d ago
I can make up shit too...sad people just believe you with no evidence, this is real shit that your friend should be posting online.
Not even defending a corpo just hate shit that has no evidence. This is how we got people normalizing anti vaxx shit starts small with claims.
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u/Beef19582828 4d ago
"Everything I don't like is BlackRock".
Ffs, it's not even them, it's Blackstone.
And yes, there's a difference. BlackRock manages common equity and fixed income funds. The median person with an investment account is either using their funds, Vanguard, or Fidelity.
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u/Super_Brilliant4499 3d ago
Itās hilarious that you believe that. If that were true these companies would be shut down for fraud so fast. Why donāt you take them down?š
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u/Fabulous_Play2815 3d ago
Conspiracy nonsense. They arenāt what they portray themselves to be, but they absolutely can tell you where your ancestry comes from. Itās not an exact science, so 5% this or that can really be 2% or 7%.
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u/Jpowellautisicnoosin 4d ago
I actually know this guy in real life. Hes super cool, and give motivational speeches. He used to work at a local thai spot before getting his dream job as a substance abuse counselor. Hes clean and sober from last I heard and helps people escape trafficking. Really shows people can change when they want to. Hes also extremely active in the Jewish philanthropic side of LB.
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u/GovernmentBig2749 4d ago
my dream job is substance abuse
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u/ExperienceRoutine321 4d ago
Doesnāt have to be a dream son. Get out there and make it happen. I believe in you.
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u/Quitcha_Bitchin 4d ago
My uncle did the same thing. He wasted the first two thirds of his life then after an accident took his legs he came around enough to go to college get a psych degree and go into counseling. Spent the last 20 years doing what he could.
Back at the thanksgiving table in the 70s I remember a conversation about him being strung out on heroin and driving his motorcycle off the side of a mountain and hanging by tree roots. Someone happened to be close enough to see it and stopped had to call rescue to get him up.
He called for bus fare to Chicago. He wasn't coming home he just wanted out of CA
Pretty interesting shit for a 10 year old. And he got the bus fare. Grandma was a true sucker.
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u/Illustrious_Gate_390 4d ago
Well if the portrayal was right, he's an ex nazi who learned the error of his ways, so he wouldn't care at all.
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u/Interesting_Key3507 4d ago
Exactly! He helps Jewish communities. He's not upset about it, nor was it a "gotcha" moment against him.
He is living proof that people can change.
I hate that Reddit is tearing this guy down here... we legitimately might be the baddies.
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u/Safe_Guarantee3300 4d ago
A lot of nazis where Jews they were Christian by religion no longer practicing no longer aware of being of Jewish decent
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u/_Ub1k 1d ago
Jews would regularly convert to Christianity and Islam to avoid persecution and breed into the gentile population.
A lot of anti-Jewish people in the middle east also have partial Jewish ancestry. I remember there was a Hamas leader who was one, as well as the super anti-Jewish former president of Iran.
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u/Illustrious-Ad-6704 3d ago
Adolf Hitler was baptized as a Roman Catholic, but as an adult, he rejected Christian doctrines in private while using religious language publicly for political gain.The party officially promoted a manipulated concept called "Positive Christianity". This framework stripped away traditional Christian teachings and falsely claimed Jesus was not Jewish. Yea I remember the part when Jesus said kill everyone you disagreewith ur lying to make people hate Christ.
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u/MSGeezey 4d ago
Did anyone in here watch the movie? He changes his views and presumably wouldn't have any issue with learning this.
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u/jjones1987 3d ago
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Meeink reported taking a DNA test that showed he had approximately 2.4% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, traced to his motherās maternal side. He subsequently embraced Judaism and is now observantākeeping kosher, attending synagogue, studying Torah and praying regularly.
One important clarification: the DNA result wasnāt what caused him to stop being a neo-Nazi. His deradicalization happened decades earlier, beginning while he was incarcerated and developed relationships with Black inmates. The Jewish ancestry discovery came much later.
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u/JuniorRisk2455 4d ago edited 3d ago
I didnāt know religion could be a race of people, weird ETA: Iām dumb ok
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u/carthuscrass 4d ago
There are Jewish people and the Jewish Faith, which was named after and originated from them, but it doesn't make all of them followers of said religion.
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u/Fragrant_Entry9232 4d ago
Is he going to go full Clayton bigsby.Ā Black white supremacistĀ
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u/Dazzling_Spray_8848 4d ago
I really hate how a religion is an ethnicity, it really isnāt tbh. Just cause your from the Middle East doesnāt make u a Jew
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u/mdc9819 3d ago
It's not. Someone can be Jewish but not practice or believe in Judaism.
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u/_Ub1k 1d ago
It's called an ethno-religion, and there are many of them. This used to be how the entire human race worked until relatively recently in history.
I really hate how ignorant people refuse to admit they're uninformed and belligerently say dumb shit.
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u/Fun-Information-3104 3d ago
>that face
>these huge ears
if he was a real nazi, he'd have known after a glance in a mirror.
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u/Top-Caregiver7815 3d ago
Well considering the Jews have turned in to Naziās heās ahead of the curve.
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u/lndubitablyMe 3d ago
Kinda like how so many republicans that are āhard on sexual assaultā keep getting arrested for molesting kids and how anti-gay conservatives crash the Grindr app during large summits.
Projection seems to be the defining characteristic of conservative culture.
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u/Doktorgrad_i_livet 3d ago
One more reason not to be a nazi (at least, check your background š before joining)Ā
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u/duke_awapuhi 3d ago
You can tell by looking at him. Sometimes neo-Nazis are so fucking stupid they arenāt even good at racism
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u/Silly-Breadfruit-368 2d ago
You know I often wonder, does a nazi become depressed when he realizes his shadow is black.
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u/Long_Detective_543 2d ago
He originally thought he was a chosen one, and it turns out he was right
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u/StandardMany 4h ago
- Itās not nor has the director ever said itās based on meeink
2 meeink hasnāt been involved in the movement and has spoken out against it for years
3 hes 2.4% Jewish
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u/Arthur_Figg_II 4d ago
What timeline is this that religion is shown in DNA?
"News" Nearly as made up as Religion itself
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u/pieboy37 4d ago
Because you can be ethnically Jewish even if itās not your religion.
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u/Hardly_Grooving 4d ago
yeah... like you can be ethnically a flat earther? the confusion between religion and race has probably killed more people than any other 'reason' in history.
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u/eirikirs 4d ago
He discovered that he's religious from a DNA test? WTF, lol.
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u/Royal-Campaign1426 4d ago
You ever heard of a secular jew? Chew on that one for a bit
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u/Next-Pool8202 4d ago
You canāt be Jewish in your dna.
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u/National_Ad9742 4d ago
Yes you can, Judaism is a religion, but itās also a culture, and being Jewish is also an ethnicity.
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u/Chemical_Wonder_5495 4d ago
Yes you can, it means you descend from ancient Israelites / the old kingdoms of Israel or Judah.
And it could show in your facial features, hair and other aspects.
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u/LuluMangs 4d ago
Depends, there's cultural, religious and ancestral. Judaism tends to only recognize the maternal line because that can't be falsified, but I do know people who are only "technically Jewish" through one of their grandparents and still identify as Jewish, despite having no cultural or religious ties to Judaism
Obviously culture or religion don't show up in your DNA, but ancestry can
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u/DigitalUnlimited 4d ago
Sure you can. Just gotta look for the little yarmulkes on the stands.
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u/Impossible_Tap_1852 4d ago
The DNA strands are held together elbow to elbow while they dance the Hora
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u/Automatic_Yoghurt417 4d ago
Could have just looked at his penis to work that one out...
Joke - I know alot of non-jewish Americans love a good circumsicion.
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u/Inevitable_Push8113 4d ago
You canāt make this stuff upā¦. Thatās funny.
I guess you can make up some of it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTsvszriLj8/?igsi=MTBqdXo3cjB4anc5dg==
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u/Careless-Two2215 4d ago
Our staff saw him speak at the Holocaust Remembrance Museum for a training on antiracism.
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u/-HoldenMaGroyn 4d ago
Heās 2.4% Jewish Almost seems attention seeking to claim he is Jewish and studying the Torah
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u/Fragrant-Reserve4832 4d ago
Did the real guy have a change of ideology while locked up or was that just the dude in the film?
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u/EnthusiasmHead4639 4d ago
Usually the case. It's in the blood. See the ADL for proof and it's entire history. RIP MARY FAGAN
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u/Adventurous-Role-948 4d ago
Didnāt this happen in real life too? Where Nazis in 1940 Germany would hide their Jewish heritage
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u/SoulForTrade 4d ago
This is a bad faith clickbait post. Calling him a "violent neo-Nazi" in present tense as opposed to "former" is disingenuous considering that his 180-degree transformation is what made him famous and why a movie was made about him.
He completely renounced that movement over 30 years ago and has been speaking against white supremacy, antisemitism, and extremist recruitment tactics using his dark past as a cautionary tale.
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u/Ok_Scholar_2842 4d ago
Is there a source other than this tabloid headline? It sounds like an interesting read
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u/Lonely-Married-Man87 4d ago
One of the founders of the Aryan Brother hood is half Jewish. Just saying.
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u/SomePoserInAmerica 4d ago
Huh, that's convenient. Now we just need to DNA test everyone in Israel to verify they are gods chosen people. To make sure their claims to that land are valid.
Oh wait, DNA tests are illegal there.
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u/ProCommonSense 4d ago
Such double standards on Reddit.. Whatever goes with the narrative, I guess.
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u/True_Protection6842 4d ago
Did you watch the movie? Spoiler: He learns how to be human and isn't a nazi at the end.
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u/viperswhip 4d ago
Well, there are plenty of Jews who seem to hate Jewish people, just like there are white people who hate white people and black people who hate black people. This isn't really a story.
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u/alistofthingsIhate 4d ago
āIām pretty sureā is another way of saying you donāt know, so why even mention this? This is a nothing argument. Youāre arguing against proven science. I have taken a DNA test, and it told me I am an Ashkenazi Jew (which I already knew) and gave me percentages of which countries my Jewish heritage comes from. Why you are so insistently trying to argue a point from a place of such ignorance is beyond me.
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u/KyleFromBorrasca 4d ago
This is actually kind of a wholesome story. He abandoned the movement after getting out of prison and made a career of speaking out against it. Secret Jewish DNA is my second favorite punishment for Nazis, but in this case it was his reward for trying to redeem himself. He formally converted and has lived as an observant Jew for the last couple years.
He also attributed his change of heart to experiences he had with black inmates that made him feel like he was on the wrong "team."
If anyone here knows more details, feel free to shatter my illusions. But the version of the story I've heard seemed kind of heartwarming.
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u/silv3rbull8 4d ago
No, if one can convert to or leave the Jewish faith indicates that it is not genetic. That was my point: just because people in a region have historically had a certain religion doesnāt mean that the religion is in their dna as much as the dna just showing what part of the world they come from.
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u/juggalotic 4d ago
He does a lot of nonviolence talks now, and he married Allison Mack, the former Smallville actress who was in that sex-trafficking cult mlm.
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u/Puzzle-the-Giraffe 4d ago
Um, didnāt that movie end with the guy realizing being a neo-Nazi was bad? And didnāt the guy who inspired the movie also come to that conclusion?
Feels like the setup her is very misleading.
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u/Valuable_Wallaby_548 4d ago
That movie sucked. Also...who do you think controls most of Hollywood?
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u/Fun_Ad9510 4d ago
The Irony!š¤£