The news media in general are downplaying any racial aspect to the attack, and sadly the young victim seems to be trying to downplay it as well.
''Her step-grandfather is African-American, she says, and she even downplayed the racial overtones of the attack, saying she was unsure that’s what the attack was about.''
Many op-ed writers and bloggers in area newspapers are scolding online commenters who don't observe politically correct taboos in voicing their opinions. As if the writer's liberal platitudes and PC smarm were not enough, a commenter gets up on his liberal high horse and dispenses 'historical truth' to the ignorant readers who don't toe the PC line.
If you can take it, read his several long comments giving us the Wikipedia version of history. This person is the typical self-righteous PC pharisee, a type that is found in profusion in the urban Northwest.
My own experiences in Northwestern cities does not tally with the media description of places like Portland, Oregon as 'White cities', where diversity is scarce. I don't know where the statistics come from that make Portland and Seattle out to be 'lily-white cities' with a tiny smidgen of 'diversity.'
Read this thread, where White people and others decry and tsk-tsk the lack of diversity in Portland. Behold the results of decades of multicult propaganda.
But no; a visit to either of those cities will show you that they are not the bastions of Whiteness that many believe them to be, or the 'boringly White' wastelands some xenophiles bemoan. The two largest urban areas in the Northwest are rife with 'diversity' and "vibrant enrichment" of the kind beloved of the allophiles everywhere.
There must be some serious undercounting going on in recent censuses, because there is plenty of 'diversity' in the urban Northwest. There is plenty of homegrown 'diversity' as well as immigrants aplenty, newly dropped into the Northwest by refugee agencies, or via illegal immigration through Canada (Chinese, South Asians, or whoever) or from Latin America.
I've had my own bad experiences on public transit while in a big city in the Northwest; in fact, I had multiple bad experiences, including being threatened physically. The bus driver in that incident did nothing and said nothing, although the man threatening me was a man about 6'5'' in height and 250+ pounds. The driver was a 'diversity' as was the man threatening me; it seems that blood was thicker than water.
I witnessed many incidents of casual violence among bus passengers, black-on-white threats and violence, and one curious incident in which a large black woman and her son of about 10 years of age got into a dispute over fares with the (White) driver. The woman, who was tall with a large build, began to punch and pummel the driver while he was driving the bus. He stopped the bus, and hit her back; they traded blows for several minutes until she and her son retreated and left the bus. And the general reaction from passengers in every case was always a detached indifference. Everyone seemed oblivious to what was going on unless they were directly threatened. Or perhaps they were afraid to even watch; they averted their gaze and reacted not at all.
I saw a near-altercation between a black woman and an apparently Ethiopian man who was handing out Christian tracts on the bus. The driver did break that tussle up, however.
Most of us remember the video that went around the Internet a couple of years ago in which a black man boarded a Seattle bus, and immediately began punching a blind woman in the face. To their credit, passengers did come to the blind woman's assistance, and stopped the attacker. It was one of several such attacks recorded on Seattle buses over the last several years. From what I remember, the bus driver did nothing to help the blind woman as she was being assaulted. I suspect that drivers are warned to stay aloof from any altercations or attacks among passengers. Either that, or Northwesterners are so low-key as to be near comatose. No offense to Northwesterners, but I've noticed the laid-back-to-a-fault style of many people in that area.
I feel sorry for the young girl who was assaulted by the baying mob on the Tri-Met, but I feel even sorrier that she has been taught political correctness and self-abnegation in matters involving 'diversity.' To that extent, she's been disarmed and rendered vulnerable, as have we all.
I hope these recent attacks in the Northwest help to destroy the erroneous idea that the Northwest is some kind of haven for Whites, or a bastion of civilization. Diversity+political correctness is a deadly combination.
