I know the whole atheist neckbeard meme is a thing but why do we regurgitate it?

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is that the same as “new atheisim”?

New Atheism was coined by the journalist Gary Wolf in 2006 to describe the positions promoted by some atheists of the twenty-first century.[1][2] This modern-day atheism is advanced by a group of thinkers and writers who advocate the view that superstition, religion and irrationalism should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever their influence arises in government, education, and politics.[3][4]

New Atheism lends itself to, and often overlaps with, secular humanism and antitheism—most particularly, in its criticism of what many New Atheists regard as the indoctrination of children and the perpetuation of ideologies founded on belief in the supernatural. [a][5][6][7][8]

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Yeah, I meant New Atheism. Theres a lot of Western chauvinistic hangups wound into the rhetoric and it smuggles in some real dangerous ideology

Obligatory, topical CN: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-12-new-atheist-celebrities-crusaders-for-empire

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