So I think when many Christians talk about persecution, they tend to be referring to the type of resistance they get from people for expressing or practicing their beliefs. Most of these things nonbelievers probably wouldn't ever label as persecution. Stuff like sneers when witnessing to people, people wanting to debate the validity of their beliefs, maybe even threats. This type of stuff is probably less prevalent in the Bible Belt or Middle America. But in alot of the big progressive urban centers, and among alot of YTS who have education and higher incomes, you see that kind of seething antipathy more.

^^ this gets marked as persecution, yet what the LGBT community and women go through is trivialised. There's a reason why nonbelievers feel confident not labelling those trifles as persecution, it's because the same Christians crying persecution won't admit when their own do worse to others.