[Serious] Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

[Irreligious Atheist]

I'm sure glad atheists in the US have had the freedom to express their thoughts, because as of 2016, they were still the most hated religious minority in the US https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...inority-us

Does Atheism inherently promote bigotry and fundamentally undermining of basic human rights, no? But white nationalism does as does white supremacy. Again you confuse unpopular speech with evil ideologies.

The membership of the KKK used to be massive, but is now a tiny fraction of what it used to be and a half black president was elected.

You realize the KKK was designated a terrorist group and they were widely fought on all front again and again. They didn't just disappear magically one day, And the struggle to get to a point where we could get a black president was one of society saying NO! to white nationalists and bigots and rendering their obscene views unacceptable in polite society, And he still faced racism and bigotry.

 This happened without the need to label people as terrorists.

It happened by making their views unacceptable to society and fighting their bullshit attempts to promote their idealogy.

 

This shows you're wrong that we need protection from scary thoughts being expressed.

No, it really doesn't in fact the opposite( And I never used the word protection please stop the strawmen) I love how to turn white nationalism into simply a "scary" as if it's just taboo rather than fundamentally dehumanizing and affront to morality itself.

 

Progress will happen without the need to label people as terrorists. 

Progress is society's eternal struggle against evil. It doesn't just happen and it can just as easily go the other way. This is why vigilance is needed because the monsters are always clawing at the gate waiting for weakness.

Support for abortion and gay marriage is way up, and people didn't need to be designated as terrorists to make that happen. 

People had to fight for all of that. It didn't just happen. They told homophobes and misogynists NO! and made their views unacceptable to society.

Progress has and will continue to happen without that.

Wrong people must fight for progress and the forces of regression are always there trying to take us backward. History shown over and over again a small group of nutbars can undo a generation of progress.

 

We don't need to be protected from the types who say the holocaust never happened or from scary tiki torches.

Society has struggled against people just like them and people just like them have undone progress before. Progress is NOT INEVITABLE and regression can always happen.
(And I never used the word protection please stop the strawmen)

 We really don't. We'll be ok.

Laughably naive and ignorant. Thank goodness all those who fought for progress and defended it didn't take your view.

You are right about the KKK. I just read up on the Ku Klux Act, which was later ruled unconstitutional. The was a far different time than we are living in now though. Racism was rampant back then, but that's not the case in this day and age. We are living in pretty much the most peaceful time in human history.

Does the Quran promote fundamentally undermining basic human rights? Sure, but people have freedom of religion. Atheism doesn't fundamentally promote anything other than lacking belief, but I'm sure a lot of people would like to censor us and prevent us from influencing their children. I'm sure a lot of people see criticism of or mocking their religion as a form of hate speech. Remember that newspaper article that asked if Richard Dawkins is the most dangerous man in Britain? Evil is in the eye of the beholder. You don't mind Antifa, but the former POTUS supposedly wanted to classify them as all being terrorists. They have the freedom to assemble though. I think it's a very good thing that Presidents aren't out there just labelling entire groups of people as terrorists on a whim because they feel like it. I will defend even the people that I disagree with the most.