I've definitely been debating on posting this for a few days now. But it is one of the better videos discussing the subject. Plus I was interested in seeing the community response.
Although the traits are consistent with most other extremist groups, I think this video does a good job of explaining this particular group to the uninformed masses. The vast majority of people have never heard of the alt right before 2016. And they've gained a lot of exposure through the media, and through their own efforts of interacting online.
It's a fascinating social construct that has no easy explanation. But this guy does a much better examination than just labeling them various -ists and moving on.
He does do a reasonable job of defining the phrase and it's history.
I guess my comment applies more to the follow-up videos. Which are also good videos, if we keep in mind that these behaviours are universal, and not attached to any specific political view.
It's interesting how people can be capable of clearly and accurately describing behaviour of the opposition, while being unable to recognize their own biases.
I think the human minds greatest weakness is the inability to objectively view itself.
I'm pretty sure he addresses that point in this video, conceding that both parties are guilty, but focusing primarily on the alt right. I don't agree with everything this guy says, and he definitely does make some hypocritical derisive comments in later videos.
I totally get it though, it could very easily devolve into the whole echo chamber nonesense.
After watching a few videos into the series one big difference I see is that he tends advocating to not engage with people and to delete comments.
Here he shows deleting a comment that was harmless with "never be too proud to delete a comment": https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA?t=693
This reminds me of this survey, according to which republican are by far more comfortable with the idea of having a roommate with different political beliefs than democrats are.
I've watched some of this series, and considered posting some here. In other videos he does a good job of breaking down some of the tactics. Ultimately I decided not to because of the way he presents these traits as being 'alt-right' when the topics mostly apply to all extreme views or highly motivated people.
The topics of the following videos usually apply in all directions, so labeling it the 'alt-right playbook' is misleading.