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> why is it the case that is always the not pro-israel comments that get moderated

That is far from the case, as you can see for yourself if you look more closely.

People (I don't mean you personally, but all of us—it seems to be basic human bias) are far too quick to jump to "always". I call this the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), which is a terrible name I'm hoping someone can improve on.

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> which is a terrible name I'm hoping someone can improve on

It seems to be very similar to Baader-Meinhoff. I guess it’s called “frequency illusion” now, which is much more descriptive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

That's about frequency per se, whereas I'm talking about experiences with negative emotional valence.

Thanks for the reply though—I hope someday someone will come up with a good name for it; or better, still, point out that it's a known bias in the standard repertoire and tell me what it's called.

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