yeah, like i said explaining things people already understood and accepted. no one is saying that rural areas are more diverse they are saying that you can't throw the diverse rural communities that do exist and enjoy the communities we have and don't necessarily want to turn into big cities under the bus and paint a broad brush to say "screw rural people" and rural communities need to all wither away
i'm not going to have my perfectly justified and sensible reaction to someone saying screw rural people tone-policed by people with no sympathy or understanding of rural communities. so typical of era's detached elitist nonsense that i get dogpiled rather than someone lecturing a rural person who is trans and gay about how they should loathe rurality too because they're being oppressed as if i don't understand my own damn oppression and want lectures on it from people talking about erasing my communities. i want to show solidarity with rural communities and stay and fight to make them better if it's at all possible, not adopt this condescending nonsense that actually does no one any favors
...okay, actually, kinda fucked that it took this many posts (really more than just reading your initial response to kirblar) to finally break through to me that this wasn't some weird attempt to defend the white rural majority.
(my brain's running on fumes between getting only 3 hours of sleep last night and lingering energy drain recovering from a gout flareup right now so, frankly, if you're gonna call me out for being a dumb condescending idiot you're totally justified in doing so.)
coming from someone who's all that except rural, everything in your post is fair. while my opinion of american rural areas does tend low due to the aforementioned things people already understand and accept (though personally, as a disabled person with CKD the biggest "thing" is avg distance to health care facilities), i'm not gonna co-sign the idea that they need to "wither away". if there are fights i can join to help unfuck rural america
particularly for its marginalized communities as some youthful idiot from suburban ohio, then i'd be glad to join them.
and it wasn't my intent to lecture, but i apologize for doing so anyway.