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
      26·
      11 months ago

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

    • cameron_vale@lemm.eeEnglish
      423·
      11 months ago

      I’m mad for good reasons because I’m good, you’re mad for bad reasons because you’re bad.

      • Djinn@lemm.eeEnglish
        173·
        11 months ago

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

        • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          11 months 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!

          • Djinn@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

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

          • Djinn@lemm.eeEnglish
            62·
            11 months ago

            Aha! You are bad because of the way you think. The classic.

            Yes, dumb too.

    • abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      326·
      11 months ago

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

      But another species?

      • marzhall@lemmy.worldEnglish
        262·
        11 months 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
        191·
        11 months 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
        52·
        11 months 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·
          11 months 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.