I didn't mean "literally the year 2013" but something more like "2000-2010" give or take a few years. I was also speaking narrowly to the context of the parent

I didn't mean "literally the year 2013" but something more like "2000-2010" give or take a few years. I was also speaking narrowly to the context of the parent comment i.e., repercussions of unpopular speech. Of course, not everything is worse today than it was in the above timeframe, but there are lots of things that have degraded considerably: violent crime (especially homicides) are up, racist groups are more numerous, partisanship is high, people are less healthy, support for civil liberties (apart perhaps from LGBT rights) is down, support for objectivity/neutrality values are lower, etc. I don't know that I would go so far as to say that things are categorically worse across the board, but these are all broad social indicators as opposed to individual anecdotes. Certainly I was hoping we could make some reasonable progress on treating LGBT and religious minorities better without trading off all sorts of other stuff.