An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America White Rural Rage has become a best-seller--and kindled an academic controv

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3. Oh no! *one* book! Must rush to the defense of rural people!

If it's inaccurate, fair enough, we should all strive for accuracy.

But how often minorities and women and immigrants picked on, in books and tweets and interviews and editorials and throughout our pathetic political discourse, nd how often does the media rush to their defense?

When are we going to hear the media say "we need to hear more from the black community"? Or from immigrants? Or lgbtqia+?

The minute any white person heard "black lives matter", all the media could talk about was the bigot perspective as to whether or not that phrase was offensive to them or to the police. Virtually no discussion of how to actually address the problem of trigger-happy police shooting black people who in many cases were innocent, unarmed, and posed no serious threat whatsoever. The black community basically got to utter that phrase, and that was already too much voice from black people as far as the media was concerned.

But one book about rural people and hey, we better get out there and defend those misunderstood rural folks.

And what's their point? Mainly that bigotry isn't confined to the rural community? Sure, Donnie is obvious proof of that. If the book was inaccurate about that it's a fair critique. But the article seems to slam it as far worse than that, as if it's little more than the old rural complaint about "elitist's" stereotypical view of the rural community.

The article itself reads like a tired retread of rural whining about anybody ever saying anything negative about them. All communities have their problems. But minorities and women are fighting for very basic rights like "to exist" or "to have basic medical care", while rural folks are fighting for... what, pride? They don't like having their feefees hurt?