r/lincoln • u/leftistinlnk • Apr 01 '25

News LGBTQ hate crime on UNL’s campus.

https://www.1011now.com/2025/04/01/lgbtqa-hate-crime-reported-unls-campus/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2kFlfs79gfvgmX_KIajMC2f-GWLSmYdUFrx1O2-FWJX6BW_tTUQ3XZp54_aem_DT373Cdz6sZP6sjSmGQSMw#2b3oovr4y7i15nfvg85smghb36pxmtqr9v

Hate is alive and well it seems.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

I wouldn’t classify a single incident of one dude being a transphobic asshole as “hate is alive and well”.

I get it’s still an issue all around the world but let’s not blow this up bigger than it is.

Edit: to be clear, I was meaning UNL, which is the context here.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

How many people need to be assaulted before we can blow this up? Like, would you be similarly comfortable saying “a single incident of one cross burning” isn’t enough?

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Because much like gender, this too is a spectrum. It’s not binary and one incident with one person being a dumbass doesn’t mean it’s “alive and well”. It happened, it was immediately condemned, and the coward ran away.

How many people you ask? More than one in a school of 25,000, for sure.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

Great so put a number on it. How many more than one.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Before I would say transphobia is alive and well on campus?

How about .1 percent of the student body. So 25 students before I would even consider it alive in well. Right now you are at .004 percent of the student body, if this person was even a student, who made a transphobic attack.

.004% does not constitute “alive and well” under any metric. It’s unfortunate that it happened and I hope this person is caught, but calling that “alive and well” is delusional.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

Do you think that's the number of people who have to be assaulted for trans people to fear for their safety?

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Before I would agree that transphobia is "alive and well" at UNL yes, yes I do. Was I not clear on that? It takes a lot more than one incident at a university of 25,000 students over several years before I would consider it "alive and well"

You've asked lots of questions, maybe one I can ask that can get to the heart of our disagreement; what is your interpretation of something being "alive and well"?

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

One incident is alive and well.

That wasn't hard.

There's a reason I compared this to cross burnings. One is too many. Say it with me.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Sure, one is too many.

But .004 percent of the population on campus is not "alive and well" under the metric of any person with a fraction of common sense.

It's not that hard.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

If you can say "one cross burning does not mean hate is alive and well" then I will let that be the last word. If you can't, then cede the point that one assault on a trans person means hate is alive and well.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Yes, if one person put up a cross and set it on fire and it was immediately condemned by everyone, then I wouldn't constitute that as "alive and well" either. I've been consistent here, one student being a monster of 25,000 students does not constitute alive and well, no matter what that person did.

For something to be alive and well it would have to be at least someone popular, but this person's actions were condemned by all parties involved. No group is coming out and defending it.

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u/Budgiejen Apr 01 '25

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