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Yeah surely broader islamic community congregated in millions on social media and forums between 2006 and 2016, mainly in western countries, mainly appealing to young disenfranchised men. To don't know the context, you either got on to the internet in 2020's or somehow, for 20 fucking years did not encounter an atheist from this batch, either irl or online. Or you're deliberately bullshitting.
Your false dichotomy of every atheist is either a white supremacist or a communist is still completely batshit even if some fraction of new atheists fell into the far right pipeline.
Some new atheists went on to become fascist does not mean every person who followed r/atheism in 2010 is now a white supremacist or a communist, that's fucking insane.
I've always read it as more of a warning. Warning as to what will happen when you leave out the fundamental issues, who's interest will be then furthered, what will be ingrained in the conscious and subconscious of the masses.
And it's not even mine, it's a paraphrase of Chico Mendes.