>>1910>super PC browbeating is being silently encouraged by corporations because they want women to feel safe online.Nearly. It's not because they want women to feel safe online, that's just the excuse. If you look at the statistics we're generally shown you'll notice that they are over exaggerated in the usual subtle statistics manner. That's not to say there aren't problems, there are real problems and that's why it makes the perfect excuse. Whatever it is you want to do you can almost always find a real problem that you can blow out of proportion to justify it (I'm looking at you terrorism).
If we look closer at the statistics we can see some shenanigans. A lot of the time you'll see graphs on how safe women feel online, but this isn't really a great metric. Hell the more times you show people a graph saying not many women feel safe the less women will feel safe. There are also a lot of graphs that in one way or another show the well know (to us anyway) fact that people on the internet aren't winning any awards for hospitality, though obviously it has a women focused spin on it. Of course, on top of this is, and often in the same image, you have the actual, genuine statistics that really do look bad and aren't just a trick. Like I say there are problems, but they're also being blown out of proportion.
There is also a mindset at work here, which shouldn't really be ignored. The good old "SJWs". They're good people and I'm happy to count a few among my friends. Most of them I basically agree with, we just have different ideas of which statistics are "true". Some of them I have ideological differences with, to them things like blowing statistics out of proportion are justified because the problems are serious enough. That's ok. I'm fine with ideological differences. Of course I'll argue against it and point out the flaws in the statistics, but that's just fair play on both sides.
>assume that humanities departments are neglecting critical thinking skills in their studentsAcademia has played a part in this, but then so has politics and the media, including social media. This isn't unusual. It's a big thing at the moment and everybody is just trying to get their slice. As such there's all sorts going on here. You have people who know don't really know the extent of the problem but just want to help. You've got people who really do know the extent of the problem and just want to help. You've got people who want to make as much money as possible, same as in any situation where there's money to be made and you've got a whole host of people using it however they can to get whatever they want. More data-mining is an example of this.
I have a theory that the data mining people are hoping to use this to end anonymity online. This is 100% in order to keep everyone nice and safe from the cowardly trolls who hide their identities you understand. VPNs and other methods will be derezzed or otherwise controlled. Of course this won't be fully effective but we have to do everything we can to stop those evil trolls remember. That this will make data mining more complete (which helps a whole bunch of people in a lot of ways, that data is useful) is of course totally by the by. The trolls!
You can see how this works. Trolls may be a real problem but they're not cause to abandon anonymity.
Anyway, like I say that's just a theory, take it with a serious pinch of salt (and if you're going to believe me about the statistics please go look them up).
>I'm fairly certain that it's not the fault of the commies this timeBasically it's not. Cultural Marxism is a thing, but it's not a very big thing, at all. They, like everyone else, have attempted to use the current situation to get what they want. They haven't been overly successful. So as much as they are real, they're also a boogeyman. The same goes for any single group supposedly behind this, a lot of different people have played parts and for a lot of different reasons.
