If you'll check history a bit...
I think you'll find the concluding statement in your post...
Yet the bottom line is simply that you cannot legislate an end to ignorance, prejudice and bigotry, and that's the problem with the Hate Crimes Act. All legislation will do is punish actions and sweep in more innocent people. But it won't change hearts and minds--and that's where you have to start in combating hatred and bigotry.
...re-states the Klan's position re; anti-racism statutes in the 50's.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
U.S.C. 223(h)(1) sez U can't annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass anyone on the Net & elude punishment for same.