Well yeah of course. I mean most enlightened beings throughout history have been hunted and killed if they were “public” entities, for a reason.
And people will project all kinds of their nonsense onto you if you are somewhat loving or clear and aware.
Let’s just say, it’s a way to pay one’s karmic debts or get a positive karmic surplus when you take on their projections (in a healthy boundary way… no reason to be a marytr about it).
You are de facto transmuting their negativity.
From my first posting on the board…with “ahem” somebody in this thread