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The problem is humans in groups, not the group. As soon as any group get a voice, they take on all the characteristics they pretended to despise previously.
Socialists join the most overtly bullying people, atheists join the most bigoted people and environmentalists become the most authoritarian. They abuse their position just as much as everyone else ever did.
And every group that gets a voice instantly decides that it has found this magical thing, a bigotry that's justified, a noble prejudice whose sounds must be rung. Take the speeches of many atheist or socialist leaders, replace the words 'capitalist' or 'religious' with 'homosexuals' or 'immigrants', and tell me it's not bigoted.
The same sentiments, the same delusion, the same hatred, the same bigotry.
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