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Once you're charged with a crime, they can and will use anything against you. If I wrote in an e-mail that I was going to kill a specific person, and I ended up arrested for that person's murder, they'd use that e-mail as evidence in a trial. Does that mean I have no Freedom of speech?
If you don't commit a crime, you don't have to worry about "hate crimes."
At the extreme you're absolutely correct. At the average person level it can take something which you'd never get arrested for and turn it into an arrestable offense. THAT'S my problem with it. You get into an arguement ans shoving match with someone on the street and suddenly, because you happened to make an unpleasant, politically incorrec comment at some point in the past you're getting arrested for a hate crime. It's nuts.