I don’t really buy any structural or economic determinist accounts of the Great Awokening. It happened because determined activists kept pushing an ideological agenda for three decades and drove out those who would constrain them. That’s it.
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So the Dear Colleague came out at a time when the number of reported rapes in America had declined by 85 percent since 1980. There was a change in perception guided by activist movements influencing media coverage, not a change in social experience.
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Not long afterward, the proliferation of microaggression discourse reformatted the extent of psychological trauma and harm being inflicted on POC, etc. These changes don't track to the macro political events of the previous decade.
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The Internet is a widescale event or social experience which was barely anywhere in the early 90’s and nearly everywhere by 2011.. platform for emotional contagion, context collapse, (overly, loosely, hyper) associative thinking,
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empirical disorientation and argument by anecdote … a breeding ground for distorted accountings of the world and the surrender of better judgment.
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