To be honest, I hate word crimes more than hate crimes.
Also, living in Canada (especially in Toronto) I can't say I've seen a lot of hate crimes being committed.
Actually, come to think of it the only recent thing that has popped up is the practice of carding, where police would stop people randomly and ask them a few questions before letting them go. The problem with this was that the black community felt that this was just as bad as racial profiling and that most of the people being carded were black people.