Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson.

‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed […] !’

I shall have my eye punched out by a total abstinence fist, or my nose broken by Sobriety's flagstaff, or my skull fractured by a temperate shillelagh! Yes; I shall be brained by yonder red-headed hod-carrier, with the muddy knees,—who, for all his uproarious support of the element, would as soon be choked as drink Boyne Water!

Rail workers deserve a pay rise. They have seen their wage packets frozen in recent years and now face (like the rest of us) inflation at its highest level for decades.