Sunday, November 10, 2013

A Proposed Petition to Boycott Disney on Racial Hate Speech

[UPDATE: The real one is here. We are lucky that rally 119 San Francisco adopted our proposal.  ]


To:

Chinese American Against Disney-ABC Jimmy Kimmel Show "kill everyone in China" Hate Speech


What:

Organize and coordinate Chinese American against Disney/ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Show "killing everyone in China" hate speech. Insist on delivering the Chinese American voices in transparent, non-political, objective, lawful, honorable, non-violent and non-denigrating way. Uphold free speech rights and distance from person(s) or events that promotes violence, unlawful trespassing, denigrating, defamatory, or biased speeches.

Deliver monthly report on status of existing White House petition, change.org on investigation petition and change.org Kansen Chu petition. Detail their individual efforts and effects. If not available, detail efforts to reach out to these petitions.

Help organize and coordinate demonstrations at and boycotting of Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Store and Disney Cruise in holiday season of 2013 and 2014. The signatories agree not to purchase any Disney merchandise, shows or travel packages while this petition is outstanding.

Reach out to Chinese American and supporters. If need, be authorized to compile signatories email list and carry out donation campaign among all signatories for the purpose of electronic and mail campaign, publication on US top media outlets, and collecting materials related to Jimmy Kimmel Show "Kill Everyone in China"  Hate Speech protest.

This petition and any authorization will expire in a year before midnight November 11, 2014. It may also be dissolved any time when there's independent unbiased proof showing that Jimmy Kimmel really turned the frowns of Chinese Americans upside down.

Why:

We understand that Jimmy Kimmel "killing everyone in China" is a show. ABC later agreed that the message is offensive and should never happen only after widespread demonstrations.

Unfortunately, the apologies by Disney/ABC on Oct 25th 2013 in letter (or previous communications) was not satisfactory. Jimmy Kimmel's personal appearance in various apologies as of date were not satisfactory either. His insists of "that's not me" rather than honorably taking the responsibility "the buck stops here" to send a clear message to all Americans that racial hatred should never be tolerated or condoned told us his real position on the issue. That's why we need this follow up. Media report of "sincere apologies" hadn't happened.

Although it is not directly targeting Chinese Americans,we have heard reports of incidents that "A mom almost burst out crying when she called us 'kids at my child's school pointed at my child’s head and said, *Kill you all Chinese*’”. It is not hard to imagine that these are happening because of this publicity and Jimmy Kimmel's insist this should be read as a joke and no further clear message is needed to all American.

Here are links to the show, and existing apologies that was deemed inadequate and insincere thus not accepted by Chinese Americans.

Jimmy Kimmel show in full context on October 16, 2013

ABC letter to 80-20 on Oct 25th, 2013

Jimmy Kimmel "apology" on Oct 29th, 2013

Jimmy Kimmel's apology on Oct 30th, 2013 as deemed unaccepted by protesters

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