Can We Book Him On A Hate Crime? Ohio High School Student Refuses To Join In Walkout

From the state that gave us the terrorist known as Joe The Plumber, rests Jake The Inert. While his fellow students bravely goose-stepped out of their school, Jake sat idly, derelict of expressive conscience.

Racist? Sexist? Homophobe? Do we even even need to pose those questions? How many more will be slaughtered because Jake the Snake wants to be a Switzerland of one? Is neutrality not an exercise in white male privilege? Should we prosecute Mr. Shoemaker?

From The Blaze (Yes, They are still around)

High school student Jake Shoemaker, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in Ohio, was suspended for refusing to “follow instructions” when he opted to remain neutral during a nationwide student walkout on Wednesday.

Shoemaker was given the choice of either participating in a walkout to protest gun violence, or to attend study hall. He felt both of those options would brand him for taking a political position, so instead he sat in his designated classroom, alone, for the duration of the protest.

In an interview with WSYX-TV, Shoemaker said “I really didn’t have a choice here. If you walked out you were with the protest, you were for gun control and anti-gun violence. And if you sat in this pit with all these other people you were pro gun-violence.”

The student further defended his decision, saying “It’s the least political protest that exists. The thing that I was protesting was politics in the classroom. I feel it has no place in a school, in a district, anywhere.”

Book him, Danno.