Reminder that Fields was sentenced simply on his gender and politics. Nothing else.

It all boils down to no law is perfect because it always has loopholes.

I'm not asking for perfect laws. I'm asking for laws that make sense. "Hate Crimes" legislation is almost always written in such a way as to exclude all but minority classes -- be they race, gender, sexual preference, etc.

the only thing I'm protected from is being discriminated solely on the criteria in the law

You labor under the misconception that laws protect you from anything; they don't. Most societies/civilization have had some sort of laws against theft, or murder, etc. Yet, those crimes still exist, and still occur on a daily basis. Laws exist as mechanism of deterrence (in a perfect world, which doesn't exist), and punishment. Hate Crimes are used exclusively (near as I can find) to punish the majority.

it's not a magic race card

Says someone who benefits from the inequality built into the law.

Unfortunately for the gentleman who was given life his social media account was the proof.

Proof of what? That he was a bigoted/racist dirtbag? So? Tell me how his sentence -- and the added years from it being deemed a "hate crime" -- is going to stop the next bigoted/racist dirtbag from doing something similar? It won't. And therein lies the fallacy of "hate crimes". They serve no other purpose than to be used as a political cudgel to be used to buy votes from "protected" minority classes. In short, those who support these laws are 1) pandering to you, and 2) assuming you're simple minded enough to think they care about you. They don't.

Edit: added some words to make the second to last sentence make sense.