'KILL EVERYONE in China': 100,000 sign White House petition slamming 'racist' Jimmy Kimmel for airing children's jokes about wiping out the Chinese



The White House will have to formally respond to a petition demanding an investigation into late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, after he aired a farcical roundtable segment where children joked about killing 'everyone in China.'

More than 100,000 online signatures have appeared on the petition's Web page in less than a month, moving it past the threshold that triggers a guaranteed statement from the Obama administration.

'America owes China a lot of money – $1.3 trillion. How should we pay them back?' Kimmel asked a group of four giggling kids in the October 16 broadcast segment.

'Shoot cannons all the way over and kill everyone in China,' offers a six-year old boy.



The news comes just a day after child psychologists criticized the late-night host for airing a montage of video clips in which parents tell their children that they've eaten all the kids' Halloween candy.



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Debt solution: 'Kill everyone in China,' a six-year-old boy said during Jimmy Kimmel's 'Kids Table' segment on October 16. The sketch created widespread anger

'Racist': Kimmel's oft-repeated gag involves posing serious questions to a group of giggling elementary school children, but this 'joke' was greeted with outrage and compared to nazi Germany

At the end of each segment, Kimmel rewards his kiddie panelists with juice boxes and gummi candy

In the Oct. 16 broadcast, Kimmel asks a group of four children: 'Should we allow the Chinese to live?'



One girl protests that the Chinese might respond in kind against Americans, but two others counter that 'they're going to all be killed' first.

The petition, launched on October 19 by an 'H.Z.' in Cedar Park, Texas – the site publishes only people's initials – declares that '[t]he kids might not know anything better. However, Jimmy Kimmel and ABC’s management are adults. They had a choice not to air this racist program, which promotes racial hatred.'

'The program is totally unacceptable and it must be cut.'

The petition's text also compares the children's wisecracking to 'rhetoric used in Nazi Germany against Jewish people. Please immediately cut the show and issue a formal apology.'

ABC has already done that.





Fury: The White House petition collected over 105,000 signatures, putting the ball in the administration's court and triggering a guaranteed response

Offensive: Chinese-American protests descended on an ABC broadcast affiliate in Houston, Texas to protest the show and ABC's 'fake apology' 'Genocide is no joke': Protesters in San Jose, California brought banners and loud voices

'We offer our sincere apology. We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large,' the ABC network said in an October 25 statement. 'Our objective is to entertain.'

'We took swift action to minimize the distribution of the skit by removing it from all public platforms available to us and editing it out of any future airings of the show.'

The only online versions of the skit still available are a video copy hosted by the South China Morning Post, and a YouTube copy on a channel belonging to a 'Zhang Han.'

There was no response to a message sent to that account holder, asking if he or she was, 'H.Z.,' the petition's creator.

The Halloween stunt has been a Kimmel staple since 2011, and attracted more than 7 million YouTube views within just a few days this year.

'Pranking your own children is not harmless fun, but is cruel and potentially damaging,' said Mark Barnett, a professor and graduate program coordinator at Kansas State University's department of psychological sciences.

Too far: Kimmel has pushed the comedy envelope for years, once co-hosting 'The Man Show,' a Comedy Central program that ended each week with a montage of girls jumping on trampolines 'If we don't allow them to live, then they will try to kill us,' one girl protested

Kimmel personally apologized to about 100 protesters who gathered outside his Hollywood, California studio, some carrying signs that showed his face with a Hitler mustache. Chinese-American groups held additional protests in at least five other cities.



The White House can take its time responding to the petition, but is unlikely to formally investigate ABC.

'Every petition that crosses the threshold will be reviewed by the appropriate staff and receive a response,' White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told The Washington Post.



'We do our best to respond to those petitions in a timely fashion, but, depending on a variety of factors including the topic and the overall volume of petitions, response times vary.'