We uppity obnoxious "New Atheists" often get called "militant" or "rabid" or even "fundamentalist", and unless you're doing it as a joke, it's highly inappropriate. Real rabid radicals do things like these animal rights lunatics, who have targeted the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, setting fire to his vacation home and stealing his mother's ashes from her gravesite. Now that is unconscionable and damaging behavior.
The site also has a poll, if you've been pining away for one lately. Maybe you can express how the actions of the real militants make you feel.
Animal research:
Is necessary
43%
Should be abolished
57%
It definitely needs some correction.
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