Pro-life vid of day: Chinese in uproar over “kill everyone in China” comment on Kimmel show
by Jill
Jimmy Kimmel’s attempt to channel Art Linkletter went terribly awry when a kid on his young panel suggested the U.S. “kill everyone in China” to solve its $1.3 trillion debt problem, to which Kimmel responded, “Ok, that’s an interesting idea.”
While China has killed millions of its own via its one-child policy to solve its own debt problems, it doesn’t want to hear it from anyone else. Chinese in both America and at home are up in arms, demanding yet a third apology from ABC, “this time, ‘with a sincere attitude,'” according to Time.
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Nov.12, 2013 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I don’t blame the Chinese government or the Chinese-American community for being upset by this.
If it isn’t obvious yet, we have become a culture of death.
– Who taught these children that killing people is a solution to any problem?
– Who thought this interview would be laughable and worthy of broadcasting?
That blows my mind.
That kid is obviously being raised in a racist or violent home. My five-year-old wouldn’t dream of saying something like this even as a joke, he’s been taught that it’s not appropriate.
I can’t really blame the Chinese people for being upset by this. Most of them are just normal people who don’t kill anyone. I find it upsetting when the Chinese people as a whole get blamed for the One Child policy or forced abortions or such, it’s not like the majority of them have any political power.
When I see anything about Chinese women in China under about the age of 35, I keep thinking, “Young women? In China?” Yes, I know there are some but it seems like most of them were either aborted or adopted by foreign families.
I find it upsetting when the Chinese people as a whole get blamed for the One Child policy or forced abortions or such, it’s not like the majority of them have any political power.
I’m sure that many of them are against it, but like you said, there’s not much they can do about it.
I don’t think we should be concerned about Chinese one child policy.
What I find upsetting and unsettling about China/America relations is that this great nation of ours relies on China to solve our financial needs!!! Everything else stems from us borrowing money from those communists. How about using China to produce for us (lead paint on toys anyone?!). Jimmy Kimmel is an idiot for chiming in on this comment. If Chinese demand interest on this debt, our government folds. Chew on that.
I tell everyone around, forget Spanish for your kids – time to learn Chinese….
I’ve read that some families in China have been given permission to have two children, because the government has realized that otherwise they’ll end up with too few people, since the ratio of young males to young females is already so unbalanced.
Honestly I think that is a very upsetting comment too and not the best handling of it by Kimmel.
As for China’s one-child policy, it is a chilling example of what happens when the “population control” ideology and “overpopulation” myths are taken to a far extent. Not only does population control rhetoric lead to cultures of death, it also becomes one of the most violent ways to propagate racism and sexism. As an Indian-American woman I can tell several personal stories about incredibly rude comments I’ve gotten about my home country’s population, how many kids I’m going to have, how many siblings and cousins I have, and so on. Every time an abortion advocate mentions “overpopulation” it just makes my blood boil.
“When I see anything about Chinese women in China under about the age of 35, I keep thinking, “Young women? In China?” Yes, I know there are some but it seems like most of them were either aborted or adopted by foreign families. ”
There are about 150 million missing women and girls in China, by best estimates. That’s about equivalent to all the women alive in the US. It’s a huge chunk and it’s DEFINITELY causing demographic and social problems (you can’t have a society with significantly more of one gender, it causes a lot of issues). But it’s still a small fraction of China’s population. Considering there is 1.4 billion people in China, there are many, many more Chinese people who kept their daughters and probably love them just as much as Western parents do. Not every Chinese person prefers boys and gets rid of their daughters, and from what I’ve read from organizations working on the problem the tide is hopefully turning to better gender equality and opportunities for girls.
I’m not trying to pick on you btw, but I think we get caught up in the horror of the One Child policy and the missing girls that we forget there is literally a billion people over there, plenty of them had their daughters and didn’t kill, abort, or otherwise get rid of them. There are definite issues but you can’t forget Chinese people are just people.
They’ve always been allowed to have more than one kid (technically, of course there have been forced abortions and such), the official line is that if you had more than one kid you’re forced to pay astronomical fines. This mostly applies to people in the city, rural folks had been given more leeway for agricultural labor purposes (which is something they still preferred boys for, sadly). They’ve removed the fines for those who have a girl as their firstborn to try and cut down on gender selective abortions and female infanticide, so the parents would be encouraged to try for a boy as well instead of getting rid of their daughter. But I really think that the governmental policies won’t help a whole lot until the culture changes to stop seeing daughters as liability (apparently boys are financially required to support their parents into old age and bring money into the family, while girls marry out and help their husband’s family instead of their bio family).
That’s true, Jack, and I imagine many families in China who do give up their daughters do so in a safe, loving way.
I’m sure there are many that do. There are some orphanages over there that are similar to our “Safe Haven” laws and such, where parents drop off infants that they don’t feel like they can care for properly, usually at a hospital or fire station and such. Infant girls (and rarely boys) are sometimes left at the orphanages if the family either bows to the pressure to have only one child (male, usually) or simply can’t afford any child. It’s very sad and I hope it gets better soon. I just don’t like that people seem to see the Chinese as some monstrous people (no one on this thread, but it seems to be a common way of thinking about their culture). Chinese people are people like any other. Some are awful, but many more are just average people trying to make it under a pretty harsh system. And people seem to forget that their repressive government contributes to this, as well as centuries old social traditions that aren’t going to change overnight. Plus it tends to be collectivist like many other Asian cultures, individual rights are much less important than family and country as a whole in China. There are some really bad side effects of collectivism, but like individualism it has it’s good points as well. I don’t think we can judge the people as a whole based on one bad part of their culture. I wouldn’t like the US to be judged solely on our terrible abortion rate or gun violence rate, or anything like that.
Jack says:
November 12, 2013 at 12:44 pm
That kid is obviously being raised in a racist or violent home.
Such kids do not get the opportunity to be on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
That child was raised in a wealthy home by loving parents who are pro-choice.
There is racism and violence in all kinds of homes, even wealthy and outwardly loving homes.
Pro-choice is violent rhetoric.
Sadly, I’ve read that most of the male children given up in China have disabilities.
I am so disappointed that China owes US national debt (and thus owns US government in the palm of their hand) and that the US is “obligated” to import sub-standard toys from China that are a safety risk to our children, and all we can discuss is their one child policy. Seriously???
@MemyselfandI, unfortunately you know nothing of China and it’s attitudes towards women. In the not so distant past, the midwife assisting at birth would have a bucket of water next to the bed. When a woman gave birth to an unwanted girl, the baby immediately went into the bucket to drown. In many cases in rural China, even today, girls are given (sold) away at birth to families in poorer rural areas where there are few opportunities for their sons to marry. The girl is raised in the family and groomed to be the wife of the son once she reaches puberty. I have two unknown sisters-in-law who suffered this fate. Children sometimes are able to find their ways back to their families as adults, only to be rejected since, in traditional Chinese culture, women belong to the family into which they are married, and cease to belong to or be members of their father’s house. They have no rights of inheritance from their father’s family.
As far a loving placement, you have no idea. There is no “loving placement” of children there. People are plentiful and life is cheap. The economy is cutthroat – you must be cunning and strong to survive. The image you see is that of the major cities that is presented to the world as the norm. Things are better there for some of the educated Chinese, particularly for those whose parents are party members and government workers. But the plight of children in rural areas is much worse that that in any western country that comes to mind. Disabuse yourself of what you have read about China. The reality is far different. I know because I have been there.
That’s interesting Byzcat, it’s like the opposite of what the Chinese immigrants I have known have told me. Where and when did you grow up in China?
Well, yes, they’ve killed millions of their own but that is still an awful thing to say! Wishing the Chinese all dead??? That’s not an appropriate response to any problem. Killing people is not a solution.
And I’m with Jack – it’s a little disturbing that a KID would make that comment!! What kind of home is he raised in that he can so easily mention killing an entire country as a solution do debt? Really? I pray that I raise my son to love all people, or at the very minimum respect their right to life. And also to learn who/what is at the core of issues – usually not an entire race of people!!
I’ve seen as much violence and racism in “rich” and “well-to-do” homes as I have in poorer homes, Del. In fact, it seems to me that a kid who would have the opportunity to be on the Jimmy Kimmel show would more than likely have been raised to think that the world revolves around him and his despotic desires. Such a child would probably dismissively suggest killing off an entire country to solve a debt problem.
What is wrong with this world???
I have never been to China but yes, I have heard about the poor baby girls who are murdered at birth. I meant that SOME girls are abandoned safely, and those are the ones who are often adopted by families in other countries.
Move over Jimmy Kimmel and make room under the boRAT campaign bus for Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen.
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Controversy over WP columnist Richard Cohen’s comments on the de Blasio family
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/controversy-over-richard-cohens-comments-on-the-de-blasio-family/2013/11/12/3c37f900-4bda-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_print.html
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“People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.”
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“I don’t understand it,” said the columnist, who lives in New York City.
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“What I was doing was expressing not my own views but those of extreme right-wing Republican tea party people.
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[I am a cultural conservative mixteca who is married to a Canadian citizen, who is ethnically Japanese and we have 5 multi-racial children, but in the Richard Cohen’s liberal lexicon I am intolerant because neither I nor my wife of 30 years, nor any of our 5 adult children is or was a homosexual.]
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I don’t have a problem with interracial marriage or same-sex marriage. In fact, I exult in them. It’s a slander” to suggest otherwise.
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[You sir are a walking, breathing ‘slander’ of the lowest denominator.]
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{“This is just below the belt. It’s a purposeful misreading of what I wrote.”
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He added, “I think it’s reprehensible to say that because you disagree with something that you should fire me. That’s what totalitarians do.”
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The baying for Cohen’s head on the Internet quickly ensued-primarily from liberals who might otherwise consider Cohen, who has been a left-of-center presence on the newspaper’s op-ed page for a generation, one of their own.
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The Huffington Post slapped a big photo of Cohen, 72, on its media page and roared, “Dear Washington Post: Please Fire This Man.”. A coterie of equally intolerant liberals/progressives periodicals, (Esquire, Atlantic, Salon, Gawker, Slate, MSNBC.com and even The Washington Post’s wonkblog) echoed the same mantra.
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[Note to Richard Cohen: Suggested remedial reading- Herstory of the French Revolution with particular attention to Maximilien Robespierre, chief architect of the 10 month Reign of Terror that ended with the fall of Robespierre’s head, who was arrested and introduced to the Madame Guillotine, the barberess of severe, who in July 1794 treated Max to a very close shave ala the ‘national razor’. This is what happens when liberal/progressive humanists suspect one of their very own cheerleaders of counter-revolutionary tendencies.]
Jimmy Kimmel is acting like, for lack of a better term, a “left-wing Archie Bunker”; now that I think about, he’s worse than that. He bashes Catholics also(I happen to be Catholic).
In real life Archie was a liberal as was the rest of the cast as far as I know. Meat head still is a meat head! Lol