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.

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.

  • @DkarmaEnglish
    65•1 year ago

    Removed by mod

    • @systemglitchEnglish
      -21•1 year ago

      Two sides of the same coin, I barely see a difference, you both invoke hate and make the world worse.

      Edit: This comment makes it clear the truth hurts. You should look at yourselves for what you really are.

      • @DkarmaEnglish
        10•1 year ago

        Clown take of the year, bot, congrats.

        • @systemglitchEnglish
          -14•1 year ago

          Hey look, a moron I get to block! Thank you for showing me your toxicity.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•1 year ago

        I feel our anger is justified when the right’s thought leaders tell their followers bigoted things they know to be false because it makes them money

      • @[email protected]English
        22•1 year ago

        If you don’t understand one of those positions is objectively bad then that says a whole lot about you.

        • ObiniceEnglish
          -3•1 year ago

          To be fair, while I agree with the viewpoint here, I don’t think there’s anything that’s objectively good or bad, just morals and beliefs in a society. I hope that’s what the other chap is getting at.

          Something we consider to be 100% bad, like physically hitting a misbehaving child, may in fact be seen as acceptable to people from another society elsewhere in the world, or in a different time period.

          It’s all just about perspective, good and bad are relative constructs.

          I’m still gonna stick to being our societies version of good, fascists and xenophobes etc can go screw, but I’m under no illusion that my beliefs or morals are objectively immutably good.

          Just food for thought is all!

          • @[email protected]English
            7•1 year ago

            Bigotry such as the transphobic rhetoric the OP of this thread was referencing is objectively bad. And I have zero interest in your attempt to defend child abuse.

    • @abuttifulpigeonEnglish
      -27•1 year ago

      I can understand someone feeling different than how they were born, it’s all fine and dandy.

      But another species?

      • @marzhallEnglish
        31•1 year ago

        The litter boxes were emergency bathrooms for shooter lockdowns. Some clever villain tied it to “identify as” rhetoric, and politicians ran with new ammo to beat up their current punching bag.

      • CethinEnglish
        24•1 year ago

        It’s not a thing. The OP is giving an example of how their media misleads them and uses fear-mongering about differences in people to keep them in line.

      • @FlickOfTheBeanEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        1. you don’t have to understand it, you just shouldn’t be a legislative genocidal asshole about it (not that that’s what you’re doing, but that’s what republicans seem to do to anything they think isn’t their slim sliver of a definition of “normal”)

        2. if you’re talking about furries, to my layman’s understanding of the subculture, that’s not how the vast majority of furries relate to themselves. From what I’ve seen, it’s not that they are the animal itself, they are the aspects of the animal, and those things are just little icons that they’re like boosting because they resonate with it. That said, there are at least a few people who DO feel that way, but I’m pretty sure they have a special category name (ferals? I think that’s what they’re called but I could be wrong, this is some deep lore I picked up years ago). If they do have that special name and I’m not just making that part up, then that implies that most furries do not feel that way about themselves.

        But, acknowledging the existence of people like that at all does validate your question in my mind. I don’t really understand that extreme either. My only point is that most furries are what you would likely consider “normal”, they just have a particular hobby. It’s no more nefarious or odd than being into gender bending cosplay. You’re just taking something (yourself rather than an anime/video game character) and twisting it into something artistically different (a fursona instead of a cosplay outfit).

        …no I did not intend to write that much defending furries but here we are lmao

        • @[email protected]English
          7•1 year ago

          hello, furry here.

          Therians are people who believe they are an animal, they are technically separate i think but theres a big overlap. generally decent folks that get teased too much.

          the big tell with the litter boxes thing is furries sell out some of the largest convention centers every year and extensively share photographs of the place. no litterboxes in sight.