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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Open-minded people learn and change their opinion when presented with facts and discussions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The key words there are "open minded."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The person one responds to isn't always the audience for the response.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

When people are toxic to dissenters online they don't think they're open minded people