I think a lot of the negative reactions to this paper are because people don't trust corporations and academics to determine what is hateful and what is not. And why should they? It's not that anyone thinks there are no hate groups or that the tactics outlined in the paper don't work, but that such tactics are likely to be abused by people in power to silence ideological opponents.

Is an organization that advocates for sex-based segregation of sports a hate group?

According to some people, they’re advocating for actively harming people.

According to others, they’re advocating for preventing harm.

My goal is to suggest that so-worded, a lot of organizations that aren't akin to the KKK an ISIS can be lumped into the same category, and often are.

Here's a question for you: do you consider so-called "TERFs" to be a hate-group?

And here's another: what do you do with the fact that the very notion of violence is being redefined to include such things as misgendering people?

So I ask you this: are you really suggesting it's unreasonable to view this kind of research with caution and circumspection?