When an online post is motivated by ones extreme biased opinion on other persons race, religion, sex, disability, gender, food and other preferences that it is almost equivalent to a crime but falls short of being an actual criminal offence, it is online hate crime.

Sometimes people online can become quite biased and judgemental based on your color, creed, religion, race, sex , gender, and can post hateful comments which can be very spiteful and inflammatory and can even lead to violence.