Why Is The Jimmy Kimmel Act Ethically Wrong

One example is the Jimmy Kimmel incident last year. The October 16th’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Show aired by ABC has ignited thousands of Chinese in over twenty cities in the U.S. to protest. During the segment ”Kids Table”, when Kimmel asked how should the U.S. solve its debt issues with China, a six years old child’s response “killing everyone in China” followed by Kimmel’s “that’s an interesting thoughts” and” should we allow the Chinese to live” has angered many Chinese both in the U.S. and abroad. Over 100,000 people signed the petition to the White House to demand Kimmel’s sincere apology of his “incitement to mass murder”, and racism to Chinese people.

While some people argued that the show was not meant to be serious, some protestors said

To them, the “joke” of “killing all the Chinese” does not seem to be fun. Thus, the protest of Jimmy Kimmel and ABC soon spread out among many of the Chinese-Americans and Chinese citizens nationwide to gather outside ABC’s offices in twenty cities. Protestors hold posters of Kimmel with a Hitler mustache, and accused him of “manipulating children” and “promoting racial genocide” outside of Kimmel’s Hollywood studio. According to the Associated Press, more than 1,000 people gathered for this particular protest. Protesters demand ABC to fire Kimmel and close down the show entirely. Both ABC management officials and Kimmel had apologized

He apologized both on-air and in written statement. As he said: ”If I upset you, I am very, very sorry. I come to you with nothing but love in my heart,” during a protest outside the ABC studio in Hollywood. However, this was not Kimmel’s reaction at first. When Kimmel answered a reporter of how he would response a group of Chinese-Americans are raising money to sue him. Kimmel responded: ”Well, In America we have the freedom of the press. If they want to waste their money suing me, I would recommend they don't do that, but that’s their choice. ” (Spegele, 2013) The largest Chinese broadcast station CCTV (China Central Television) broadcast this video clip of Kimmel answered the reporter along with the Jimmy Kimmel show of “Killing all the Chinese” to the domestic Chinese citizens, who may never heard of this show or lack of understanding in