No, Flashingbeacon the important thing if you are a woke liberal is that you live in a woke liberal area with woke liberal policies. Not like those redneck bigots in North Carolina, say.
Women & children's safety isn't important at all. Not even a little bit.
A further conversation between two ladies on the Decaturish site about this incident:
Barbara Palumbo "wouldn't what you described be more like Decatur becoming Braselton or Calhoun or Woodstock, though? They're some of the most conservative counties in Georgia. Saying we're the new Buckhead is not a new phrase for Decaturites. It has been said for years, well before even Trump got in. "We're the new Vi-Hi." "We're the new Buckhead." And it makes me cringe because I feel that a large part of the reason we lost the election was because we came off as elitists. We wanted our 1930s-era houses to stay their size and we want our dog park and our liberalism and our advertised intelligence. But how can we call ourselves liberal when we aren't inclusive to people from all different backgrounds? When we turn our noses up to people whose opinions differ from our own? When did we accept homogenization as the norm? Isn't political diversity still diversity?
Again, what this hate group is doing is wrong. But saying and thinking we're the new Buckhead isn't the answer. It just divides us more. If we consider ourselves to be the more intelligent party, then we need to stay intelligent."
Susan McNeel Camp "Barabara Palumbo I appreciate where you are coming from. I agree that our town’s spirit of inclusion should truly extend to all of our residents. For me, it goes beyond politics. I’m a native Georgian. I grew up in Marietta. I went to school in Carrollton. I lived and worked in Buckhead. I lived and worked in Midtown. I never had a sense of true belonging or attachment to my community until I moved to Decatur. Sure, we are the only “blue dot” in a red state and I’ve enjoyed our progressive little bubble since we moved here. However, the entire culture of our city is shifting. Our bungalows are being razed for McMansions. Affordable housing has practically disappeared. Townhome and apartment dwellers are treated “less than.” People are moving here for our good schools and then are pushing their own agendas without due respect for the unique culture and spirit that has made our town so special and wonderful for so many. I think that our culture of inclusion is now at risk because so many people who DON’T share that value are moving in and trying to change Decatur into what they want. I wouldn’t move to Spain and then expect or demand my community to speak English or abandon their customs or way of life to include my American ways.
I’m sorry if my analogy was offensive or cringeworthy to you.
Buckhead or VaHi is fine if that is the culture and lifestyle that suits you. Having lived there, I know it didn’t suit me. So, I don’t want to see this precious gem of a town morph into another super wealthy, conservative community. Metro Atlanta has plenty of those."