I'm an atheist, and us being an acceptable target, at least in online spaces, is a reaction to the plague of pretentious white debate bros, the kind you especially see on reddit

I was one of them for a long time, and I'm glad I've grown out of it

far right evangelicals aren't good but they're a relatively smaller problem in the grand scheme of things, I had to realize focusing so much effort on opposing them almost exclusively was a waste, and feeling all superior because I was "winning arguments" against the most intentionally ignorant people I could find who wouldn't change their minds anyway didn't really mean much