accountability bias: the systematic bias against people who actually try to do stuff

Rather than judge non-ingroup people/groups by their intentions or even their net impact, non-ingroup people/groups are judged by the total harm they do. Because tradeoffs are inevitable, doing anything (no matter what the intention or how net-good) will do some harm. The more a person/group visibility does stuff, the more harm-done they’ll accumulate to “hold them accountable” for.

Because doing stuff implies you have “power”, the more perceived power a person/group has, the less favorably you can expect them to be viewed. It’s the reason why politicians, CEOs, journalists and cops are so underrated.

It could also be called Total Harm Bias or the Total Harm Heuristic.

The constructive interference of coverage bias, negativity bias, and incentives to virtue-signal doesn’t help either.