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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 May 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Chris Stedman

      Organized atheist community needs to think about how they are serving as a gateway to bigotry (as, of course, many religions do as well).https://twitter.com/ChrisDStedman/status/994575084173053954 …

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      Chris StedmanVerified account @ChrisDStedman
      That Yale student who called the police on a black student who was taking a nap? It looks she was involved in movement atheism, interning for @FFRF and writing regularly for @DaylightAtheism about being "vehement[ly] anti-Islam" and opposing hate crimes legislation https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/994561344992104448 …
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    2. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @GreatDismal

      The "Organized Atheist Community" is an ideological mirage. What is it? Sam Harris fanboys? Devotees of Saint Hitchens? No unbeliever I know thinks of him/herself as part of an "organized community."

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018
      Replying to @markdery

      There are in fact many organizations that operate under the mantle of atheism. Googling should help you.

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    4. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Spare me the dimestore snark; you're better than that, or so I'd like to believe. (An uncharacteristic leap of faith.) Yes, there are organizations. Not every atheist is a joiner, nor is every group a gateway. Not a terribly difficult hair to split.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018
      Replying to @markdery

      Organized atheist community refers to those organizations. It doesn't refer to anyone outside of those organizations (non-joiners). Should be elementary distinction.

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    6. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I doubt there's any data on how many members tilt right, which makes the charge that they're "gateways" baseless. Nor is there likely any data how many unaffiliated atheists are right-leaning. Anecdote isn't evidence--another elementary distinction, though no less useful for that

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2018
      Replying to @markdery

      Gateway theory doesn't require most organized atheists to be right-leaning. It requires (as is the case) for this to be a path. If you hang out around alt right people, it's sometimes discussed as a path.

      10:55 AM - 11 May 2018
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        1. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          1/ I don't doubt organized atheism is a path for some. But any theory that doesn't require that the "gateway" is reliably a gateway for most is barely worth the name. Puts one in mind of Jeff Sessions's revival of the laughable canard that pot is a "gateway" drug.

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        1. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          2/ More to the point, if many (most?) atheists *may* be unaffiliated and many (most?) affiliated atheists are likely not rightists, why are we debating this at a moment when religious zealots (of every stripe) are working so much more mischief than the irreligious?

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