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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] 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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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The thing is, what a politically engaged person thinks of as "politics" and what a disengaged one does probably has limited overlap. People probably aren't bringing the Tories or the Republicans up in a D&D community, but bring up race portrayal or representation for disabled people and watch the sparks fly.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People probably aren't bringing the Tories or the Republicans up in a D&D community, but bring up race portrayal or representation for disabled people and watch the sparks fly.

    I wouldn't bring up either up during a game. Unless I was prepared for some serious eye rolls and not being invited again lol.

    And unfortunately people do bring up the former during all kinds of shit. Politic brains are wild.

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