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In most of the world, the article explains, the gene that allows for the digestion of lactose switches off after childhood. But with the arrival of the first cattle herders in Europe some 5,000 years ago, a chance mutation that left it turned on provided enough of a nutritional leg up that nearly all of those who survived eventually carried it. In the post, the link is accompanied by a snippet of hate speech urging individuals of African ancestry to leave America. If you cant drink milk, it says in part, you have to go back.

In an inconvenient truth for white supremacists, a similar bit of evolution turns out to have occurred among cattle breeders in East Africa. Scientists need to be more aware of the racial lens through which some of their basic findings are being filtered, Dr. Novembre says, and do a better job at pointing out how they can be twisted.

But the white nationalist infatuation with dairy also heightened Dr. Novembres concerns about how to handle new evolutionary studies that deal with behavioral traits, such as how long people stay in school.

Anticipating misinterpretations of a recent study on how genes associated with high education attainment, identified in Europeans, varied in different populations around the world, the lead author, Fernando Racimo, created his own frequently asked questions document for nonscientists, which he posted on Twitter.

And in a commentary that accompanied the paper in the journal Genetics, Dr. Novembre warned that such research is wrapped in numerous caveats that are likely to get lost in translation.

Great care, his commentary concludes, should be taken in communicating results of these studies to general audiences.

Already, some of those audiences are flaunting DNA ancestry test results indicating exclusively European heritage as though they were racial ID cards. They are celebrating traces of Neanderthal DNA not found in people with only African ancestry. And they are trading messages with the coded term race realism, which takes oxygen from the claim that the liberal scientific establishment has obscured the truth about biological racial differences.

This is by no means the end of the article, so if you're interested enough to keep reading into this, keep going. I just wanted to point out how kneejerk you'd have to be to jump to the conclusion that "Oh, SJWs/White Nationalists are saying milk is racist now!"

The story is about a bunch of white folks drinking milk to prove that the act doesn't make them want to shit their guts out and die, and using it as an example of genetic superiority over other races who might not be able to digest dairy as well. And the funny thing is that white people have begun to lose this gene, rendering a ton of white folks lactose intolerant - not to mention that a similar mutation found its way into East Africa around the same time as it did in Europe, so this isn't even an example that's unique and beneficial solely to white people. It's just the ignorant hollerings of the alt-right trying to make that case.

But the white supremacists don't care - they're going to chug gallons of heavy, full-cream milk until they're churning butter in their guts while they walk, because it's the only genetic perk to being white that they can objectively parade around as being a thing - again, despite the fact that it isn't just a caucasian thing.
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