Some students certainly engage in such behavior, just as there may be towns where an openly gay resident is made to feel more than a little unwelcome.
I like to believe both groups are tiny minorities, gaining attention only because they stand out among a vastly more tolerant majority. We’re a more polarized nation than we have been in close to 150 years, but history suggests such passions will eventually be tempered, and in my view that can’t happen too soon.