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"But then, these days, and I DO say this from experience, whites are the only ones that are considered racist. I've been called it several times, because I'm white (which I'm really not but most people don't stop to ask)but then, I'm given "special treatment" when applying for jobs and whatnot if I put down my real heritage on the application, so exactly what is considered a "hate crime"?"

I'm in a similar situation. I'm part Indian (American), part white, and look white. I could put down that I'm Indian and get special treatment. But I don't, because I'm opposed to preferential treatment based on race.

Sometimes I think that certain people are thought as hate crimes by the PC crowd. I'm white, male, straight, Christian, conservative and Southern. To their way of thinking, that means I'm racist, sexist, homophobic, intolerant, fascist and racist(again) - in other words, their version of evil incarnate - just by existing. And Doubleplusungood as well!

While reading and posting I had a chilling thought. What if it becomes possible to be convicted of a hate crime without doing anything?

Anyone remember that slogan the homosexual lobby had a few years ago, "Silence is the voice of complicity"? That was about AIDS, ostensibly, but they might try to apply it again, to anyone who says nothing to praise homosexuality loudly and often. They could say that the person's silence indicates his complicity in hatred of gays. Bingo - instant hate crime. Based on what I've seen, I wouldn't put it past them to try this. Nor would I put it past some PC judge to go along with it.