You're getting downvoted, rightly, but I wanted to explain why that is.
> Is that racist ?
Yes
> Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal
You've got a pretty distorted view of all this. No-one (sane) is advocating for putting any group on a pedestal, we're just asking people to treat others as if they were human beings, which they are. It's really not that hard to grasp.
For example, in this case we are discussing no-one is asking for the kid to get special treatment because of his race, instead they are pointing out that he should not be actively discriminated against because of his race.
Thanks to the HN users who tirelessly flag comments for the good of this community. Without you, we couldn't moderate this site. Because of you, we can at least prevent the bottom from falling out.
Even if you ignore race, it's still ridiculous to arrest a kid for bringing a clock into school because someone believed it to be a bomb.
This kid didn't show up with a homemade alarm clock at a Confederate Flag rally.
He showed up at a school
You know, those places where you go to learn? Where you have these people called "teachers" who are supposed to have a college degree and promote learning?
Context matters. If you can't trust educated teachers in a school to know the difference between an alarm clock and a bomb, who else can you trust?