Or was it the other way around.
I'm not saying this is right, I'm just trying to file it under the correct type of dumbassery. This is a school stupid, not politics stupid. The politics is just a maguffin.
I also strongly suspect there was some behavior that went along with the shirts. Projection on my part. At that age I wouldn't just have worn the shirt, I would have been a pest about it. I was a clever lad, so I probably would have managed to not break any actual rules or overtly disrespect anybody, but it would have been far from innocent. And I was one of the good kids.