During the October 16, 2013 episode, Kimmel held the "Kids Table" segment to invite several 6-7 year old children to discuss how to repay the debt owed to China. A boy suggested "killing everyone in China." This comment elicited some laughter from audience and Kimmel laughed it off and commented "that's an interesting idea." He later asked "should we allow the Chinese to live?" The boy stuck to his answer.[21] This show has drawn ire from offended Asian Americans and Chinese netizens. Critics have taken to Youtube and created a petition to the White House and a campaign on Facebook[22] boycotting Kimmel’s decision to air the comment on his show and asking that the show be investigated for its promotion of genocide and racism against Chinese. The petition demanded that ABC should "cut the show and issue a formal apology." [23] The petitioner argued that "[t]he kids might not know any better. However, Jimmy Kimmel and ABC's management are adults. They had a choice not to air this racist program, which promotes racial hatred."[24]Meanwhile, not all viewers of the parody found it objectionable. Gu Xiaoming, a professor at the School of Humanities at Fudan University, believed that some were reading too much into comments from a child, and the show reflected Americans' anxiety on the debt crisis to some extent.[25] The online video of this particular segment was taken down from ABC[21], however ABC and Kimmel did not respond to the complaints[23].
This episode is widely circulated online and overseas in China[26]. Boycott of Disney (Parent owner of ABC) are being organized [27]. Failure to censor the show for age-inappropriate material and in-appropriately light-hearted exchange and laughter over the child's "kill All Chinese" is reported to FCC for investigation. Groups of parents are also investigating possibility of class action lawsuits on behalf of children who accidentally were exposed to hate speech.[28] Immediately after this incident, on Yelp the Jimmy Kimmel show was still rated 4.5 stars [29], but on the local Chinese review site[30], the same show was rated much lower.