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If people form a common group identity, in concert with feeling threatened by people outside of the group, they will find *some* way to form a body of ideology and a subculture which serves to respond to outsiders with violence and oppression.

New Atheism formed a group identity that centered "Western Culture" (read: whiteness) and accrued more and more trappings of right wing ideology over time. Eventually, many of its proponents embraced the rest of the right wing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/18/oh-what-a-catastrophe-the-new-atheism-was-for-lower-case-a-atheism/