It's a community of millions of visitors and countless thousands of commenters a month. It's free for anyone to join and comment. Topics like this will always

It's a community of millions of visitors and countless thousands of commenters a month. It's free for anyone to join and comment. Topics like this will always attract comments from people with strongly held positions from all perspectives. In my observation they generally balance each other out. If they didn't, the site couldn't really survive, as thoughtful people who value interesting discussions wouldn't stick around. People who claim that there's a strong bias towards a particular point of view are likely subject to the hostile media effect [1]. Anyone can succumb to this, as it's natural for us to pay more attention to positions that we find threatening than to those we find benign. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect