I think -- it was very stream-of-consciousness! -- that there's this problem with figuring out who the vid defines as "White America." Of course this definition can shift over the course of the vid -- vidders do that all the time! -- but it doesn't seem to be shifting in a controlled way.
Like, if "White America" is the horde of uber-vampires that launch the vid, then White America is the enemy Spike is fighting by immolating himself. So Spike is heroically speaking out against White America/ubervampires by ... killing Slayers/people of color. If "White America" is the patriarchy/white supremacy/class hierarchy, which Spike and Veronica and Dean start out belong to, then fight, what does it mean that Spike rejoins the power structure by beating Robin Wood but go against it by destroying the ubervamps? How does Veronica's shifting class status work out? How does Dean fit in, especially since *visually* his misogyny -- the drowning of the lust demon -- is actually a textually justified action that becomes *metatextually* problematic because of the *show*'s pattern of violence against women? Is the problem Dean or the show? If Dean is meant to represent the show, why not use a Dean/Bela or Dean/Ruby interaction that offers textually unjustified misogynistic actions? Is White America the monsters people are fighting, or the people fighting the monsters?
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Like, if "White America" is the horde of uber-vampires that launch the vid, then White America is the enemy Spike is fighting by immolating himself. So Spike is heroically speaking out against White America/ubervampires by ... killing Slayers/people of color. If "White America" is the patriarchy/white supremacy/class hierarchy, which Spike and Veronica and Dean start out belong to, then fight, what does it mean that Spike rejoins the power structure by beating Robin Wood but go against it by destroying the ubervamps? How does Veronica's shifting class status work out? How does Dean fit in, especially since *visually* his misogyny -- the drowning of the lust demon -- is actually a textually justified action that becomes *metatextually* problematic because of the *show*'s pattern of violence against women? Is the problem Dean or the show? If Dean is meant to represent the show, why not use a Dean/Bela or Dean/Ruby interaction that offers textually unjustified misogynistic actions? Is White America the monsters people are fighting, or the people fighting the monsters?