Yes it is. 
Following the bishops at Vatican II, priests generally rejected the dry scholasticism that dominated the preparatory documents from the Vatican. This included rejecting the anti-modernist campaign that maligned many good Catholics and stifled conversation in the Church. Many of the worst attitudes we see on social media today come from people influenced by the anti-modernist campaign.
However, I am not sure you can give that generation the credit for exposing sexual abuse in the Church. They remained largely silent, as clergy had in the generations before them. It took courageous victims speaking up, journalists covering them, and courts to really bring the abuse to light. Some of the clergy involved in facing the issue, like Cardinal O'Malley who was ordained in 1970, do come from that generation, but they largely followed the scandal after it had been brought to light.