The first comment that I searched for to look at its parent comments was created 11 months ago by an account 11 months old... "HN is a right wing cesspool"... I truly believe that he was new here, or trolling.
But either way, that comment from /u/jessaustin that was completely hidden (unless you enable show-dead) was less harsh (it was probably even just a fact) then the "HN is a right wing cesspool" comment that was not hidden...
You can't draw any conclusion at all from a pair of random data points (or rather, you can draw any conclusion at all). Moderation isn't a total ordering—it's a stochastic process that mostly works with random samples.
> The first comment that I searched for to look at its parent comments was created 11 months ago by an account 11 months old... "HN is a right wing cesspool"... I truly believe that he was new here, or trolling.
There are countless other examples. If you don't see how commonly commenters say this kind of thing, it must be because you're not noticing it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).