Here we have the oldest item on the list: It’s a Mickey Mouse comic strip from 1931. Yeah, you know this is going to a dark place.
It starts with Mickey visiting his neighbor Kat Nipp, who, from the sight of his yard sign, is so tough he never learned to spell and just punches the dictionary until it agrees with him. Is that a barrel used as a chimney? Shit, forget what we said. Wanna use a barrel as a chimney? Sure, whatever you say, Nipp. Wanna boil water at 30 degrees? Go for it, just don’t kill me, man! But as it turns out, that’s not Mr. Nipp – that’s just some random walking horrible homosexual stereotype.
Now it’s time to show 1930s kids how tolerance works, Mickey!
Yes, “cream-puff inhaler.”
Mickey, you little scamp; you never learn. What, you want more? Nope, that was the whole joke: Mickey meets gay cat thing and then beats it up for being gay. That was considered an enlightened message in 1931 – before then, Mickey would have straight-up stabbed him.
