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USA TODAY

Conservative outlet The Daily Caller tweeted out an article entitled "University’s LGBT Students ‘Fear’ Arrival Of Chick-fil-A."

And President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted it, adding the comment, "Luckily these students wont likely have to tackle issues more stressful than a yummy chicken sandwich in their lives... Oh Wait #triggered."

The backstory: Some students at Duquesne University oppose plans for a Chick-fil-A -- which donated in the past to anti-marriage equality efforts -- to come to campus next fall. According to conservative outlet Campus Reform, whose story The Daily Caller cited, a couple of students told the campus newspaper they "fear" the impact on the campus climate of having a food outlet associated with not supporting LGBT rights.

Many on Twitter immediately started taking Trump Jr. to task.

Though many others on social media are deriding the students' "fear" as evidence that the students are weak "snowflakes."

Tomi Lahren, for example, backed Trump Jr. up.

As did Breitbart News.

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But as far as Trump Jr.'s suggestion that LGBT young people experience little stress goes, here are some relevant facts:

- LGBT people are more likely to be targeted with hate crimes than members of any other group, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

- They face high rates of other kinds of harassment and discrimination as well.

- In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting, it was reported that the murder rate of LGBTs was on the rise.

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This story originally appeared on the USA TODAY College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.