The author notes that they’ve personally expanded the definition as part of their own research. Like you, I think that’s unhelpful and tries to analyze dissimil

The author notes that they’ve personally expanded the definition as part of their own research. Like you, I think that’s unhelpful and tries to analyze dissimilar things and apply conclusions to them indiscriminantly. But I suspect it’s more interesting to them this way, and easier to pursue funding when your thesis includes more socially impactful stuff like harassment and harm instead of just provocation and ideological derision. Institutional bureaucracy gonna bureaucrat.