I hate the whole idea of “hate crimes”. It implies that for reasons of religion, skin color, sexual orientation etc...one violent crime is somehow worse than another.
If someone is beaten half to death, they are beaten half to death. It shouldn’t matter if the reason was “I hate black people” or “You were hitting on my girlfriend”.
Would someone who got beaten up because he was hitting on a guy’s girlfrend be the victim of a “like” crime? A “love” crime?
Stop it.
You said it for me!
The crime is the crime, regardless of the class of the victim.
I would suggest that many of the ‘knock out game’ types of violence against whites was not motivated by feelings of affection.