The thing that I wanted to highlight is that any "angry white man" is some other thing first and foremost if they present themselves as a problem. The angry hick is an angry hick, not an angry white man. We never talk about the problems of white culture, it is always an issue with some other sub-culture within the context of white men. The ferguson protesters were just black, and then we hear calls to address the issues with the black community. When black people get angry, men or women, it's a problem with black culture. When white women get angry, they're too emotional. When white men get angry we don't have anything to say, unless we can pin the problem on something other than what has become the white male victim complex (I'm not saying no one is talking about these things, but we need to get a lot fucking louder about it.)

None of this would matter if there weren't real consequences to letting white male culture run roughshod over our political policies and our social environments. Maybe the answer isn't the stupid generalizations that get applied to everyone else; maybe we should talk about the issues of white men within the proper context, but then let's be consistent. Let's make sure we're having a conversation about the particular white men that are causing problems in our society, and not just pretend that "conservative will be conservative" is some kind of answer. When you can't so much as have an online community without bigotry leaking out of every topic like an overstuffed sack of hatred, there's a real problem. When users of color/women toss up there hands and say "fuck this, it isn't worth it," there's a real problem. And that doesn't begin to address the public policy issues that literally have life and death consequences.