I don't agree, and there are many counterexamples in this thread alone.

People who are passionate about a divisive topic often feel like the site/moderators/community are hopelessly biased against their view. The people with opposing views feel exactly the same way—which, ironically, becomes the one thing they can agree about, although they disagree about the direction.

This is ultimately a function of how the passions work, so I don't believe there's much we can do about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

A lot of my comments calling out Israel for this terrorist attack are flagged.

Also, this should certainly not be flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219097