From The Hip | Are Chinese Americans overreacting by comparing Jimmy Kimmel to Hitler?
Kimmel's "anti-Chinese" skit may have been in poor taste, but are protests the answer?
More than three weeks after the fact, America’s Chinese community is still up in arms over Jimmy Kimmel’s perceived anti-Chinese skit.
Thousands of protesters in 27 different US cities took to the streets last week demanding more apologies by both Kimmel and television network ABC.
Many are claiming that the Jimmy Kimmel Live skit, which contained a comment by a six-year-old who said that America should “kill everyone in China” as a means of settling the US debt crisis, was reminiscent of rhetoric used against Jewish people in World War II. A White House petition asking the US government to investigate Kimmel’s late night television show has received over 100,000 signatures, and in protests across the US, demonstrators have been holding up placards comparing Kimmel to Adolf Hitler.
But as angry groups of Chinese Americans continue to wage war over a matter that’s now more than a month old, I can only wonder if this commotion is truly worth it.
Watch: The original “Kid’s Table” skit