This effect is perhaps most pronounced in comments sections of local news papers, where stories about pretty much anything seem to attract rantings about Muslim

This effect is perhaps most pronounced in comments sections of local news papers, where stories about pretty much anything seem to attract rantings about Muslims, gays, socialists/leftists, SJWs, what-have-you. A lot of the more reasonable nope'd out of there many years ago. I wrote a somewhat related article about this a while ago: https://www.arp242.net/censorship.html https://www.arp242.net/censorship.html