You don't read your sentences from one to the next.
Society prosecutes crimes in order to defend itself and its citizens against harm and punish criminals.
Citizens who have been victimized by criminals are protected by the prosecution of those criminals. Citizens who weren't victimized are also protected. If there are no penalties there are no protections. Penalties bring protections.
If you determine that one class of victims warrants more protections by way of higher penalties than you would grant to another class, than you are giving the first class more protections than the second class.
That is what you are doing with hate crimes but you don't want to admit it.