and well educated than those people with comments that you present above.
As parents and teachers, we do our best to nurture our children. We teach them good values, guide them in the right directions when they make mistakes; we protect them from all harms before they are mature enough to protect themselves. To shield young children from inappropriate contents on TV, many parents have used the parental control features on their remote control. Initially, I thought ABC is a family friendly TV channel whose contents do not need to be monitored, but the Jimmy Kimmel's "Kid's round table" show on Oct 16 proved me wrong.
In response to the question on how to pay back our debts to other nations, a 6 year old boy proposed the idea of "Killing everyone in China". Mr. Kimmel chuckled at the answer and made the comment that this was an "interesting idea". After leading the young guests to a debate on the feasibility of using mass murder as a problem solving strategy, Mr. Kimmel further asked the kids in the show "Should we allow the Chinese to live?”, to which he got mixed answers.
I had briefly wondered how this little boy came up with the idea of “killing everyone” in a nation. Then I realized that the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is not even a live show. Like all talk shows, there are hundreds of people working behind-the-scenes. Each writer is responsible for writing monologue jokes and each usually has an assignment for a specific guest. The shows are recorded earlier in the day to allow enough time for necessary editing.
Now I know that the 6 year old may not understand what he was saying, but the adults behind the show must know what they were doing. Instead of asking “Should we allow someone to live?”, which should not even be a question to begin with, maybe we can ask the following questions instead: Should we allow adults to channel messages of mass murder and genocide through a 6 year old? Should we allow our children to consider, even for a second, killing people as a way to solve or escape from their problems? Should we allow a TV host to expose thousands of innocent young viewers to messages of violence and hatred? Should we allow a TV program to use race baiting to boost a show’s popularity? Should we allow our children to suffer from all the negative publicity, to be laughed at, to be emotionally traumatized, so that some adults can enjoy cheap and distasteful jokes?
Enough is enough! It is time to protect our children from malicious programs on TV. It is time to say no to the adults who attempted to mislead and use innocent kids for their own agenda. Every day we shower our children with love. How can we tolerate the people who purposefully delivered hate speech that have potentially counteracted all our efforts? Until ABC issues a formal protocol to make sure something in that vein never gets aired again, until the company lets go of all the people who lacks basic judgment and human decency, we are not viewing your program again. We are not creating revenues for Disney and ABC, until you prove with your actions, that you really endorse the values your adorable cartoon characters represent.
