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.

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      627·
      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.

    • abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      431·
      1 year ago

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

      But another species?

      • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
        332·
        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.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        251·
        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.

      • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        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

        • LapGoat@pawb.socialEnglish
          81·
          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.