Sometimes I don't think we make enough hay over how many of the 'militant atheists' of yesteryear became militant islamaphobes or militant antisemites without too much prodding. Some held true to loudly espousing how much christianity sucked, but even then their statements were cherry-picked to serve supremacist interests. The rest, however, followed the grifting money trail laid down before them and became tools of the right (or at least showed themselves to be problematic as all get out).
Funny how absolutists seem to flock to fascist or authoritarian thinking, isn't it.