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Yeah, or if you express an opinion, someone will assume a whole list of other opinions that you probably have and attack those instead of what you said.
I'd say it was just ignorance, but it's also a tactic for manipulating conversations that people use intentionally. So you're always playing a game of 'is this person just ignorant, or are they trolling?'
Since social media relationships are ephemeral, since you rarely ever talk to the same person twice... people never have to worry about harming their reputation and being labeled and ignorant or manipulative.
One of the advantage of the old school forum communities is that you quickly learned who was ignorant and who were the trolls. You can't do that on Reddit in 'communities' that contain millions of people (and bots).