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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic – even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.
Open-minded people learn and change their opinion when presented with facts and discussions
The key words there are “open minded.”
The person one responds to isn’t always the audience for the response.
When people are toxic to dissenters online they don’t think they’re open minded people