Yea, the post seems a little confused. I don't think most people talking about sexism in Silicon Valley or racism at Starbucks or crime by illegal immigrants a

Yea, the post seems a little confused. I don't think most people talking about sexism in Silicon Valley or racism at Starbucks or crime by illegal immigrants are claiming a new or rising epidemic. They're claiming to be drawing attention to long existing problems. Of course one can argue the degree to which these problems are real or not, but Scott seems to be trying too hard to find recent "Summer of the Shark" examples that will push peoples political buttons, at the cost of confusing what he's talking about. People discussing voter fraud, school shootings and campus speech issues, on the other hand, do tend to claim there's a recent "epidemic" regarding the issues, and thus seem better examples of what Scott want's to discuss.