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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As is on Reddit, the number of non-political posts with top level comments slandering republicans, seemingly totally off topic, is disappointing. I'm not American, so I don't understand why so many conversations are simply "republican bad". It seems obsessive.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Because republican politicians what to limit the freedoms of other people. Many republican voters don't, but they vote for "their side" anyway. Do I need to respect the republican voter that's personally tolerant, but still votes for intolerance?

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Because conservative bs affects almost everything in our lives. Not pointing it out just enables it to keep happening.