Atheism and whiteness are two very different things so that's a false equivalence.
Yet militant atheists and their sense of "persecution" are very similar to militant white-privelege deniers and their sense of "persecution"
Atheist have a history of persecution socially in this country. Whites do not.
I find that very hard to believe
It might not be, for example, as violent as other groups(it's definately not as big as anti muslim bigotry) but social stigma does still exist for atheists.
Social stigma =\= persecution
Also I just realised I spelt "privilege" wrong. Apologies
I suppose you're right in a certain sense because then we could go on about definitions of persecution and whatnot. But I'd argue that atheists do face negatives that whites do not, especially given the founding of America. ---