Think back to when Carter let the Iranians invade the embassy. It was downright dangerous to even look like a camel jockey on a Uni campus at the time. Swarthy dudes made sure to walk around with pasty white guys like me.
I hit a car that ran a stop sign exiting a university at the time.
The cop said, don’t worry sir, he’s an Iranian exchange student-you have no worries.
Even worse, I may be off base but I’m under the impression that if they burned pride flags in many states that it would be a hate crime.