I'll say it again since you're all too stupid to loving read: I'm NOT DEFENDING youtube, I'm explaining why they did it. I don't think the videos should have been taken down but what I think bears no effect on what youtube ends up doing, much like what hoot thinks or what you think.
The video is considered hatespeech by youtube's standards. Since we're talking about youtube's terms of service on youtube's platform with content hosted on youtube's servers, arguing about whether or not it is hatespeech or not doesn't do anything.
If you think I'm a shill for saying you're wasting your breath, that's your loving hill to die on, not mine.