Mhm. Like fucking clockwork lmao.
1) I’m neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I’m white and oppressed.
2) I didn’t use the word “oppressed”, I just said “religious minority”, but since you want to go there, sure let’s go there.
There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as “political suicide” in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they’re one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to be elected in the first place.
A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who “didn’t agree with [their] vision of american society” and that 44% of respondents wouldn’t agree with their child marrying an atheists.
And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it’s still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.
Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you’re not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or “supreme being”, so it’s not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.
This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let’s be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating “atheist” with “white” and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn’t gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.
People who don’t believe atheists are an oppressed minority in literally most of the countries on earth are wild. Like. Have you not looked at Society At Large??
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