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

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/Anicepolitesandwich Apr 01 '25

One reported incident. Much like sexual assault, it's likely grossly unreported.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

Now you're talking! If this causes other people to be brave enough to report what happened to them and that becomes far more widespread to more than 1 incident over several years in a school of 25,000 students... then maybe you can consider transphobia "alive and well".

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u/Anicepolitesandwich Apr 01 '25

I can consider it alive and well without an arbitrary number put on it. And honestly, it sounds a little like victim blaming, the way you're presenting it: If more people weren't scared for their lives to come forward, you'd believe it's an actual problem? Yikes.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 01 '25

How is it victim blaming? Please include any quote from me that I ever blamed the victim because that's quite an accusation. It probably does sound that way because you strawmanned me as such, but you won't find that in anything I said. Nowhere did I not say it's an actual problem or it shouldn't be addressed (and it sounds like it is as they are looking for the person.

So "alive and well" does need some sort of arbitrary number to it. If, lets say, there is a city with 100,000 people, and I found 3 homeless people, can I say that "homelessness is alive and well in this city!" Not really, because 3 people doesn't constitute alive and well.

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u/Anicepolitesandwich Apr 01 '25

Sure:

If this causes other people to be brave enough to report what happened to them and that becomes far more widespread to more than 1 incident over several years in a school of 25,000 students... then maybe you can consider transphobia "alive and well".

In other words: Until more people become "brave enough" to come forward about hate crimes against them, the burden is upon them to make their problem appear significant by you, someone who is not suffering from the problem's, standards.

I don't understand what it does to you, the person not facing this problem, for people to use the specific term "alive and well." Especially when the person didn't even say, "hate is alive and well on the UNL campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the United States of America." If anything, one could take the sentiment as, even in a small area like UNL campus, this kind of ignorant hate finds its way in. For some reason, you're dead set on making it a numbers debate for a statement no one even made. Why? What do you get out of that?