Results: Hate Crimes: Any More Hateful Than Any Other Crime?

Assuming that a hate crime can be reasonably defined as a criminal activity motivated by a a victim's ethnicity/people group, sexuality, gender identity or other characteristic not shared with the crime's perpetrator, do you believe that at least some crimes should be prosecuted as hate crimes (for further clarification, see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20crime)?

Especially if you answered the precious question affirmatively, do you believe classifying a criminal offense as a hate crime renders any kind of service to to the victims of such a crime or its survivors (if a murder or manslaughter is demed a hate crime)?

In your experience of following in the news offenses that have been labeled by law enforcement agencies as hate crimes. have you noticed that crimes against members of certain groups or possessed of particular identities are more liable to be branded hate crimes than offenses perpetrated against member of other communities or claim other identities?

If you've ever been criminally victimized, would you claim with assurance beyond reasonable doubt that your assailant committed his/her crime against you because of some aspect of your identity, which could then make the infraction in question a hate crime?

Do you, like I, see that designating some acts against the law as hate crimes is a step toward the (what I believe to be) dangerous precedent for the state to criminalize thought, and not merely actions that deriving from thought?