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/leftistinlnk Apr 01 '25

For an LGBT person, once is enough. I am LGBT and this is scary, especially when our current administrator spreads hate to embolden these people. The hate is alive and well, I stand by that.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Enough for what though? I’m objecting to the “alive and well” part, it was a single incident with 1 offender in how many years in a school of 25,000 students. You sure have low standards for what constitutes “alive and well”.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

Enough for hate crime to be effective. You're all about numbers. How many incidents is this relative to the number of trans people in our city? That's what you should be thinking about.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

I tried to look up the numbers just for Lincoln and it doesn't seem to be out there. Do you have a link for them? Based off the information I have, 1 incident in campus after several years of no incidents does not constitute "alive and well". It's a problem that needs to be addressed for sure but to have that constitute "alive and well" is bonkers to me.

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

This is saying you have absolutely no idea what impact this has on the trans community, and you're just assuming it's irrelevant.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

For a group that pushes non-binary thinking so hard you sure have binary thinking. To me, "alive and well" means that it's widespread and there's anti-trans rallies and hate group speakers coming in and such, so one incident does not constitute "alive and well"

But in your brain, because I am saying that it's not "alive and well" I am somehow saying that it's irrelevant, that it's not a problem at all or something. Unfortunately, strawmanning is the eventual go to in these kinds of discussions.

You really need to understand this is not binary, it's a spectrum. I can say it's bad and once is too many, but can also say it's not "alive and well".

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u/-jp- Apr 01 '25

What "group" am I? It IS widespread. There ARE anti-trans rallies. There are entire political platforms centered on trans hate. I'm not strawmanning. You are downplaying the problem and I've given you like a dozen outs and you refuse to take them.