The war on offensive t-shirts has taken another victim. This time, it's the lovable Sesame Street characters, who have apparently taken nationalist liberation into their own hands by arming themselves. Brockton High School has banned t-shirts featuring the children's show puppets:

On some, Oscar the Grouch emerges from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun. On others, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed with automatic weapons.
"We were amazed," said the school's principal, Susan Szachowicz. "You focus on the Sesame Street character. But the more we looked at it, the more we saw the things in it, the guns, the gang stuff."

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