It is just as bad in that it targets what goes on in people's heads, their feelings and thoughts ("hatred"), rather than actions.

It is concerning when people in power no longer recognize the difference. 

"In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol) are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish thoughtcrime, personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party."