This is not "gentle fun."

Earlier this week, The O'Reilly Factor sent Jesse Watters to interview people in New York City's Chinatown, ostensibly to talk about the upcoming election.

What followed was pretty much every tired, offensive Asian stereotype you could fit into five minutes of television.

There were gongs. "Kung Fu Fighting" played in the background. At one point, they played a random clip of Mr. Miyagi (who, by the way, was fictional and Japanese).

Watters asks a few stupid questions like, "Do you know karate?" (also Japanese) and "Is it the year of the dragon?" (It's the year of the monkey.)

As someone who is half Asian-American, and grew up with mostly Asian friends, this was familiar grade-school-level racism to me, like someone squinting their eyes or speaking in a fake accent.

But even worse was when Jesse Watters — who seems like a caricature of a pompous reporter on The Daily Show, but isn't — asked people who appeared not to speak English well questions, and the show played cricket sounds or old movie clips as they struggled to answer.

He might as well have just screamed, "Look, this immigrant can't speak English!" while laughing into the camera.

As expected, plenty of people had a problem with the segment.

What’s worse, Jesse Watters’ racist attacks on Asian Americans or the fact Fox News stands by him with no comment? https://t.co/NMxjogOiWR — Brian X. Chen (@bxchen) October 5, 2016

This Fox segment on Chinatown is racist and fails so hard at being funny. Is there a worse combo? https://t.co/lhmyOz9V68 — Jessica Prois (@JessicaProis) October 5, 2016

One of the most racist things I've seen in my life. Fox News spending 10 MINUTES making fun of Asian people.https://t.co/SUEcZHozTR — Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) October 5, 2016

Fox News makes racist attacks on Asian Americans because we haven't yet made them pay. Who are their top sponsors? https://t.co/Hah2LglDPl — Anil Dash (@anildash) October 5, 2016

"They're such a polite people." This Fox News segment on Chinatown is deplorable. https://t.co/D5azQBhQxj — Ang (@MagnaFarta) October 5, 2016

Politicians also expressed their outrage:

Jesse Watters is unfunny and mean. He should be ashamed of himself. Also, he's not welcome to Honolulu Chinatown. — Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 5, 2016

.@jessebwatters segment in Chinatown offensive & unacceptable. Welcome to my district — hope you don't come back. https://t.co/pvgQFNhCKU — Daniel Squadron (@DanielSquadron) October 5, 2016

On Wednesday, the Asian American Journalists Association demanded Fox News apologize to the Asian-American community for its "racist and offensive" segment:

Host Bill O’Reilly called the segment “gentle fun.” There was nothing gentle or fun about it. It was rude, offensive, mocking, derogatory and damaging.

Fox missed a real opportunity to investigate the Asian American vote, a topic not often covered in mainstream news ... We deserve far better treatment and coverage than we’ve been given by this Fox News report.

When Mashable reached out to Fox News for comment, a spokesperson pointed to several recent tweets from Jesse Waters.

As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are. — Jesse Watters (@jessebwatters) October 5, 2016

My man-on-the-street interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense. — Jesse Watters (@jessebwatters) October 5, 2016

So there you go. His segment was filled with political humor, not clumsy racist stereotypes. Thanks for clearing that up, Jesse!

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