Could be any number of things and could be nothing.
Someone accused me of being a marxist on twitter recently even though my profile clearly says my day job is as a marketing director.
I've been accused of trying to take folks' guns away in a thread containing a video of me at the gun range.
People see what they want to see :)
I have been quite open about the fact that I wear an N95 mask and am vaccinated, due to the fact I have a bunch of vulnerable people I can't risk. That and my dislike for Q/45/flat-earth/incels/white nationalists/etc means I piss off a lot of people just as a regular daily thing and there is nothing I can do about that.
Probably the most hate I got was when I said I didn't see a problem with female space marines, though.
Oh dear, you don't have a problem with female space marines? Neither do I, even though I'm willing to acknowledge that goes against the lore... well, the current lore, anyway, since 40K's fluff is wildly inconsistent. I may have to watch myself, but then, I'm Necron player, so why should I care?
I can certainly sympathise with the idea that people see what they want to. False dichotomies make it easier to dehumanise the "other." Communists see me as a science-denying creationist, and creationists see me as a godless communist, even though neither of those things are true (well, the "godless" part is true). It gets wearisome after a while.
Ha yep the other day someone said I was a centrist as an insult, I think they actually meant "decides based on the specific issue and the currently available evidence around it" and that was too long to write ;)
The with us or against us team-sport/tribal stuff will be the end of humanity I am sure!
A centrist, you say? Well, aren't you a filthy little fence-sitter! I jest, of course, but I'm a little more optimistic - "us vs them" tribalism has been around forever. If that sort of thinking were to end humanity, I think it would have happened by now. Every time something happens that seems like the end of the world, it too passes.
I like your attitude :)
This year I was supposed to keep positive and that lasted about ten minutes. It's probably social media/trad media amplification rather than anything real I see. Discord gets clicks a lot more than agreement!