ABC has issued an apology for a “Jimmy Kimmel Live” skit, during which a child suggested that the entire population of China could be murdered to deal with America’s debt to that nation.
During the skit, which aired last week, Kimmel gathered with a group of children to discuss how the U.S.’s debt to China might be erased.
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“Kill everyone in China,” one child blurted out.
While other kids offered more reasonable methods of dealing with the debt — such as, “Put a huge wall so they can’t come to us” — the option of offing the Chinese was eventually circled back to.