[ralusek]

Hate crimes are already a redundancy over the fact that the underlying crimes are already crimes. Hate crimes against Asians, doubly so. You already can't assault somebody. We don't need laws that say that you can't assault somebody on the basis of their race, and we definitely don't need laws saying that you can't assault somebody because they're Asian.

[fighterpilot]

It's not all just redundancy since it imposes stiffer penalties on the strict subset of crimes deemed more important to punish or deter.

I don't really like that one kind of assault is punished more than another even if the physical harm is identical, although I can see why some people would.