The narrative that these digital suburbs were safer than the city enhanced its desirability, particularly for those who had no interest in interacting with people who were different.
Plu-ease! Narrative? What narrative? Everybody has the right to interact with who they want to. Sometimes it's reciprocated, sometimes not. That's life.
I called a bunch of whining black women “cows” and someone accused me of being racist. I said all the cows around my farm are white. And they are.