theowraithical physicsancestry dna services reproduce whiteness by erasing cultural and historical specificity. the idea that you can be "40% scottish" as a material thing is horse shit. if you did genealogical ancestry and found that your great grandparents migrated from glasgow after a local industry failed, that is actually material and locates you within history.
Ember 
@dankwraith It is strange to think there is really any such thing as having dna from a place. That's not how dna works. Humans have always moved from place to place. What time period are they claiming this genealogy is from? It seems to me like this is only a thing that would come into being in a place like the US with our weird concepts of race and ancestry
@Laura_I absolutely
calaveras@dankwraith @Laura_I totally agree. It’s a farce.