I would say that the person who wrote that article is even more self absorbed than the person who accidentally hit them with their backpack. It’s extremely easy to do that entirely by mistake, especially on a cramped bus. The person who went out of their way to judge, paint this innocent person as full of hatred and evil, is a potent level of arrogance and total concern with dragging anyone they can through the mud for their own benefit.

That’s exactly what a shitty (and funny enough, racist) person does, they project hatred and guilt onto entire histories, personal judgements, and the meaning of someone’s very existence over tiny interactions or completely arbitrary characteristics of that person. 

It would be similar to me claiming you abuse your children by your profile picture because of some historical connection to sunflowers and abused children. It’s literally that fucking stupid.