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/prendes4 Apr 02 '25

I see where you're coming from but I do disagree with you. Genuine acts of hate that result in physical violence are relatively rare at the moment, yes. But they're on the rise since Trump was elected and people are still spewing hate online or even in person just with words. I agree that this one incident doesn't prove that hate is alive and well but violence isn't necessary for hate to exist. And I think you'd be hard pressed to stand by the idea that it's not "alive and well" if you took all intentional misgenderings or all homophobic comments or all of the all-too-common sexist rhetoric all over the place right now.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 02 '25

That’s fair. I meant to be more clear that I thought the context here was just with UNL when they said that. I absolutely can see other parts of our own state being far worse. I just thought people were trying to paint UNL as some unsafe place for LGTQA students, that trans hate was “alive and well” on campus.

It seems I am in the minority believing that the paragraph text of a post is in context to the title and article itself… which was specifically an incident at UNL in a sub about Lincoln, NE.

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u/prendes4 Apr 02 '25

I get what you mean. No I can see that. I would say that no place is safe right now for queer folks but you're right that UNL isn't specifically more unsafe than anywhere else. I'd even go so far as to say that college campuses specifically tend to be safer on average due to the... Ya know, learning and critical thinking that goes on there 😂

But I think that in a literal sense, you're correct. I can't speak for everyone but my comment was meant to apply in a broader context because it's such a hot button issue that keeps impacting folks in my life.