Don’t think it’s new. It’s just that for a long time american uprightness was wrapped up in evangelical Christianity which people generally felt had to be tolerated. What happened in the post 2014 era was secular groups adopting some of those traits.
I recall pre ~2014 you could have a bit of mutual teasing with your coworkers and now it's basically off limits because there is a very small percentage of people with no sense of humor
I worked for a non-American commonwealth company for a while and it was like a blast from the past. "Wow, you're allowed to tease that guy over an obvious physical/personality trait and not worry about a talk from HR? How retro."
Eh. I don't know about this. I think the issue is that the KIND of teasing evolved and certain older sects of workers didn't. The teasing the younger cohort at my job engages in is VERY different from the older cohort but the two are VERY careful when the streams cross.
And we're a pretty tight team. But the cultural barriers of generations DO cause issues.
The problem is a lot of bullies/real assholes would use "just friendly banter" as cover. A hard line had to be drawn and unfortunately, some relatively harmless stuff got killed because the real dicks couldn't control themselves.
What happened in 2014? Why that year?
Not sure. Been wondering myself. But it does feel like a real inflection point with the benefit of hindsight.
Gamergate. Hardened up the factional lines, explicitly entryist on the part of the channer fash, happened around the same time as Ferguson, which led to cross-pollination between two distinct but related sets of fights.
Weinstein.
Weinstein was 2017
A number of things came to a head in 2014. Gamergate, BLM, and early MeToo (they didn't call it that but there was a big thing and SA on college campuses). Why? No idea. It was just time I guess.
Big thing about SA*
I mean they all had specific events behind them, but they weren't the first such cases of any of them.
Don’t feel like it gotten enough examination but Trump was only successful because unleashed evangelicals from their self imposed need to pretend to be proper, he allowed them to openly hate the sinner