The trouble is consciously rejecting an idea you were raised with doesn't immediately rid you of the various biases that idea instilled in you. And nobody is more susceptible to bias than people who don't think they have any, which describes a lot of people in that sphere. This is where the absurd phrase "culturally Christian" comes from, because they realize the beliefs they were raised with are bullshit, but then they notice that that belief system has all the prejudices that they have (because they were raised with it), so rather than confronting those biases and doing self-crit (emotional self-awareness and humility ew ew gross) they instead just come up with some bizarre twisted rationalization (using FACTS and LOGIC) and accept that. The brain is very good at rationalizations like that and can invent all sorts of convoluted lines of logic if it means fitting in with one's tribe.

Fair, I just say such because I was raised with specifically the positive aspects of Christian values.

Totally fair, the bourgeois perversion of Christianity must be destroyed.

If we’re talking about the same atheists that pioneered the anti-SJW movement , then yes 100%.

That's what it seems like to me. It was very much the same "white dude pseudo-intellectuals pretend they know everything about the world but only push reactionary ideology" as the Peterson, Rogan, etc. bullshit.

its definitely still a thing in some irl spaces actually. i've seen atheist groups irl that will espouse new atheist cringe talking points insulting all religions. they do sometimes go after christians too, at least, but it seems like a lot of what they do is go after islam.

It was primarily an Islamophobic movement in the post-Gulf War and 9/11 era.

Some good ones:

• Hidden beneath a superficial rationalism, they provide a seemingly intellectual defense of imperialism, push islamophobia, and use it to create a smokescreen for the injustices of global capitalism. 2,3

It was a short lived thing a decade ago. This is a terrible post.