Reading the meta here now it seems like quite a few people are throwing up their hands at the vid and saying to it (appropriately enough): Fuck You. But I'm still on my second and a half time watching it, so I just wanted to throw out there what I got out of it, because...I'm finding the discussion interesting enough to make up for the lack of coherence in the vid itself, and if I don't say: "hey here's what I saw" now then I'm never going to say it. I mean, put it another way: I'm glad I watched the vid, even if it's obviously not polished or good or coherent or whatever.

So my initial interpretation is this: this is about being a part of White America and a) rejecting it, b) not realizing you're a part of it, c) getting rejected by it, or d) some combination of the three at once. Being part of something and yet marginalized by it at the same time. Enjoying and hating it. Benefiting and getting hurt by it. Being a hero and a villian. So I don't think it's about racism or classism or sexism so much as it is about 'being white' and how sometimes 'being white' is impacted by the various -isms. That's what I see. But..like people have been saying--it's a crapshoot.

And, if the vidder is reading this: I want to chime in and say that I would *love* a revised version of this, since this version is almost but not quite maybe there. (And also because, over it, hangs the spector of being anonymous. Which is this whole other part that I find...not fascinating, but. Something. I'm not yet sure what.)