I know this is a weird question, but let me give you some context. I live with my parents. I live in a place where I can't get anywhere that I want to. No public transport and I don't have a car.
I used to live downtown and took the bus. Back then I had a read on people.
It's been a while since I've interacted with the general public. I see people at receptions for doctors appointments or whatnot, but that's about it.
One thing in the past though is that I could hate the beliefs of someone, yet like them well enough as a person.
I despise feminism, but I felt that individual feminists I could be cordial with and they'd be cordial with me. That most individuals will be friendly on some level and you can connect on some level.
I really truly don't know what people are like now.
I see what they're like on the internet and the news, but that is very unreliable to what the day to day experience is like.
I assume some of you live in cities and interact daily with many different types of people. What is it like "In the real world?" to be a little tongue in cheek.
As others have said, they tend to be timid individually but emboldened in groups, although that's hardly unique.
What does strike me, though, is that often times I can't quite tell whether the escalated hostility is on account of them being legitimately emboldened by numbers, or whether it's actually a fear response. People are often like that under dictatorships, their hostility towards wrongthink is as much a way to placate their fellow "comrades" as it is a sincere expression of ideological zeal.