Here's the thing: we used to laugh at these people and, while that may not be 'kind', it was entirely the correct response. They are risible and in any healthy society should be ridiculed, marginalised and treated with profound suspicion because they are indisputably wrong'uns.
While I agree with the Orwellian thing, I think it'll swing back the other way sooner or later and we'll see a rise in fairly extreme social conservatism. Quite a lot of babies will go out with the bathwater, sadly.