I do get why people have a problem with his record on killing off characters on Buffy. But I genuinely think he doesn't look at their sex or skin colour. He just kills people so it can add to the drama. I can understand why it looks bad when you look at the pattern but I don't think there's any wilful malice or ignorance behind it. Though I would be interested to see what the artist Georges Jeanty thought of it all. I would imagine his input matters as well.

And one minor problem I have with a lot of critiques of Joss' track record on killing people is that they tend to focus on Buffy and ignore what happened on Angel and Firefly where there were PoC in the core cast.