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发帖数: 478 | 3 一个美国媒体能登出这样的文章真是太不容易了。
好佩服视频里的华人女同胞！真为这样有勇气站出来的人感到骄傲！
A Chinese Protester Explains Why Jimmy Kimmel Needs To Be Fired
Offense is cultural. Millions of Americans saw Jimmy Kimmel ask a child what
they should do about the U.S. debt to China on his ABC show, and when the
child suggested "killing everyone in China," and they probably chuckled to
themselves and forgot about it.
For many Chinese people, however, the joke went too far, and they couldn't
forget it. Since the show aired on October 16 more than 100,000 people have
signed a petition asking for the White House to investigate the show, with
protests comparing Kimmel to Hitler appearing in New York and Los Angeles.
Almost a month later, the scandal just won't go away, with the latest
reports suggest that the Chinese government is getting involved. Many
Americans are left scratching their head: Sure, the idea of killing everyone
in China is abhorrent, but that's why everyone laughed — it was a
ridiculous comment!
To get the other side of the argument, we reached out to one of the people
involved in the protests.
Kimmy Got is a middle-aged housewife who lives in New Jersey. She was born
in Hong Kong and emigrated to the U.S. in 1991, first to California, before
later moving to the East Coast for her husband's work. She says that she
first heard about the protest via a friend's email, and she was immediately
hurt.
"My first reaction was 'WHAT?' Someone would say something so irresponsible,
insensitive, vicious and cruel on a renowned TV station?" she explains. "I
was totally stunned that these comments would be aired on TV in America
today ... I could not believe it."
Kimmy says she has experienced racism before. "At times in my life, I have
felt that I was being discriminated against racially," she says. "And I... I
dealt with it, because discrimination is happening all over the world.
Someone can discriminate against you and you may discriminate against other
people in some way. It is unavoidable."
"But this … this is definitely not the same thing," she says. "The scale …
it can't be compared."
Even though Kimmy is clear that she has never been involved in activism
before, she was insulted and wanted to do something big about it.
"If you don't have this kind of big movement, nobody will hear you," she
says. "It's only a private discussion."
So she went online, where she found others who were insulted. These groups
began to organize themselves, first via email lists and then via a Wiki-
based website.
The Wiki offers a fascinating glimpse into the movement. One page lists
potential slogans for the group, including "Fire Jimmy Kimmel, the new
Hitler!" and "ABC, Don't kill me! (Let some cute kids holding this post)."
On the poster page, there is a suggestion "if there are any Nazi symbols, I
suggest you draw a cross above it." The website includes information about
discrimination against Chinese-Americans, including an explanation of the
murder of Vincent Chin, a man beaten to death in Michigan in an act of anti-
Asian violence.
Kimmy went to the first demonstration in front of ABC's offices in New York
City at the end of October, and she admits she was shocked that more than
100 people turned up. "It was just people talking online," she says. The
most recent protest in Times Square on the ninth of November had more than 1
,000 people, she said.
The start of this video shows Kimmy talking at Times Square:
So far, ABC have removed the clip from its website and posted a message
online offering a "heartfelt, sincere apology." Kimmel himself brought up
the segment on his show after the controversy began to snowball on October
29. "I just want to say I am sorry," he said. "I apologize. It was certainly
not my intent to upset anyone." Later, an apology letter purportedly
written by Kimmel was posted to the Sina Weibo account of Chinese news
agency Xinhua.
The apologies change nothing in Kimmy's eyes, however. "Right now they
really are playing some dirty games with us," she says. "They are trying to
make the public think that they did apologize a few times. We have been
following so closely, and we know they have not. All these apologies are
false."
Kimmy says that she can't speak for everyone in the group, but she know what
she personally wants — Kimmel fired. "Don't forget, Kimmel asked, "Should
we be forced to pay our debts? What kind of question is that?" she says. "
Kimmel doesn't know what DEBT means? How can he be qualified to be a public
figure, to be a host on a TV show? His mentality deserves serious scrutiny."
She also believes that the White House (who have committed to responding to
the anti-Kimmel petition as it has more than 100,000 signatures) should
investigate Kimmel and ABC.
Kimmy's anger is clearly sincere. "America is one of the leading countries
of the world. Americans pride themselves as intelligent, loving and kind,
but they would make these vicious remarks that are full of racial hatred,
injustice, violence?"
When I suggested that perhaps Americans are scared of China's growing power,
Kimmy is shocked.
"They're scared?" she says, before laughing. "No! If someone is scared of
someone, they wouldn't make remarks like that. And if they did make the
remarks stupidly, they would apologies ... They totally disrespect us. They
know that us Chinese, we are quiet people and sometimes we are the victims
of bullies as we just accept it. Thousands of years of history show that."
It's easy to think of China as a strong country, with a powerful military
and a booming economy, but clearly not all Chinese people feel like that —
some feel like their country is unfairly maligned and has been dominated for
centuries. This seems to be a big factor in why the protests have become so
big — a second White House petition (which specifically asks for Kimmel to
be fired) makes this point obvious, asking "what would Martin Luther King
say if a TV host asks ''Should we allow the African American to live" for
joking?"
Kimmy says her hope is that these protests can unify Chinese people, and
teach them not to be so obedient. However, it may also may also teach
international media organizations to be extra careful when dealing with
Chinese sentiment — ABC's parent company, Disney, had been planning a major
expansion in the Chinese market. It needs this scandal to go away. |
