It's weird, but not in the way you think. What's weird is that people seem to be reading Susan Fowler's story as somehow unique to Uber. Her story happens in so many tech companies, to so many people. I saw someone retweet her post well before the media picked it up, and I retweeted it because it was yet another good writeup of the problems in the tech industry. I'm baffled that the narrative is somehow that this is a uniquely bad problem, specific to Uber.

From the starting position that hers is one of many stories like this, no, it's not particularly weird that this one came to light after the anti-Uber campaign. It happened to line up well with the tech and media industries recently hating Uber because of politics, and so it played to people's biases. And the particular narrative that Uber is the one bad company in a good industry definitely played to people's biases. There are lots of stories like this (which is part of why I think this story is particularly believable: it's not an extraordinary claim by any stretch, and therefore does not require extraordinary evidence), but you've heard of very few of them.

Be skeptical of the implicit claim that Uber is awful in ways that the rest of the industry isn't.