14 year old boy arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school

[Cory]

13 year old boy suspended for playing "hangman" (a word game a long the lines of Wheel of Fortune that kids have played forever)

6 different stories of students suspended for obviously fake guns

very white 12 year old girl suspended for not tucking in shirt

teen suspended for pink hair (to support breast cancer), teen suspended for growing hair too long (to support his sister with cancer), I could go on for hours I'm sure, but I'm hoping you get the point. 

This. Not everything is about race.

[Cory]

He was a bright middle school kid who brought a homemade clock to school to impreess a teacher. Yes, undoubtedy occasionally absurd zero tolerance school policies had a role to play, but anyone who believes for a second he would've been arrested if he was a white Methodist boy is deluding themselves.

Whathe was arrested for was bringing a (fantastically imagined) suspicion of bringing a bomb to blow up his school. "bomb + Muslim = terrorist" as many Americans will tell you, including repeatedly mayor of that city.

this was an attack of blatant Islamophobia, but it hit a telegenic middle class kid and proved an embarrassment

Point of Order: He didn't "make" anything. He just stripped the plastic outside of an alarm clock and put the innards in a suitcase.

[Cory]

It's funny how the people who sided with him just can't admit they were played.

[Cory]

I don't know,

No, you obviously don't.

[Cory]

I find it disturbing that someone wants to send in a drone to kill a 14 year old. With that said, he isn't a terrorist and it's ridiculous to suggest such. These new developments are not an excuse to scream blindly "terrorist" and wish death on anyone. If it was a set-up, the family shouldn't have done that, but at the same time the reaction still shows how backwards some places can be.

Here's the thing: You knew that was a joke, but deliberately chose to pretend you didn't. Care to explain why? Why did you feign outrage when you knew full well it was nonsense?