I want to get the joke about how this seems like something that would happen in Somerville, but I don’t. I will say if there was a world championship for ‘wokeness’ then Arlington, Cambridge, and Somerville would all be strong competitors.
I am driving for a living now and I am in these towns all the time and it is so damn depressing.
Not wokeness per se, but just kind of trashy. When I was in college we referred to it as “Slummerville.” It was a tough town. It’s where the real gangsters operated.
Somerville was long known as Slummerville, AKA, the land of the leaning porches. Has come up in the world remendously since the Red Line was extended there from Cambridge.
Now tries hard and even succeeds in outwoking Cambridge.