Anne Buchanan, writing at The Mermaid’s Tale, has more on the Hungarian racial purity story I commented on earlier in the week:
It’s important to note that the testing did not precede the racial hatred, but it does serve to feed the frenzy. This is why we have so often cautioned that scientists need to be very careful about the kinds of uses for which they use or advocate genetic testing. Not long ago similar ancestry testing was proposed for screening immigrants to the UK–for national ‘security’ purposes. Sound familiar? It’s just what the British eugenicists were up to 85 years ago.
