When you say "the same category" -- how are you delineating categories, and what's the point of such a delineation?

If one person gets beat up for being a Sikh...

And if another person gets beat up for being Puerto Rican...

Is one of those assaults less "acceptable" than the other one is?

Obviously, the Puerto Rican person is likelier to get assaulted than the Sikh person is, due to skin color/pigment vs. religious/sartorial expression.

But, when someone is enduring a crime being committed against them...the last thing they're doing, in that moment, is pondering the statistical "likelihood" of whichever atrocity is happening to them.

(Obviously, I'm using physical assault as an extreme example...but we can take this same principle and apply it to much less life-threatening situations)