Quite possible. Name-calling just furthers division by oversimplifying. I imagine being called a deluded bulltard cultist all day long AND having the price go against you must hurt as well 
By the way while I am generally bullish on BTC but I don't want to be labelled a bulltard, it would hurt my feelings. In fact, I am a permabeer troll

By the way while I am generally bullish on BTC but I don't want to be labelled a bulltard, it would hurt my feelings. In fact, I am a permabeer troll

I'd say it's more herd mentality than anything. It's easier to agree with the majority, because there are more people to back you up, and less people to insult you. That's why people tend to migrate to forums where their opinion is in the majority: it takes a lot of balls to buck trend.
Add in the fact that for this forum in particular, you've got a lot of people with a lot of money invested, and it's easy to see why it's so polarizing.
Find an anti-bitcoin forum and post bull arguments. You'll get the worst proverbial beating, and no matter how many rational arguments are presented, they'll all fall on deaf ears and be flooded by a deluge of shouts of "idiot, loser, sucker, enjoy spending your money on internet monopoly money."
I don't understand people who dislike something but visit forums dedicated to it, they are trolls plain and simple. Boring, sad, dull people who have nothing better to do with their life.
You know what I can't stand or understand? Formula 1. It's boring as fuck, watching cars go round and round, but I don't join formula 1 forums just to call them all boring losers who are wasting their life. It's really quite bizarre behaviour for someone to do that,