"Ginger Kids" is the eleventh episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park.
In the episode, Eric Cartman is led to think he has contracted a mysterious and sudden onset of "gingervitus" (in actuality, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski use skin bleach, hair dye, and henna, to transform him into a ginger kid in his sleep).
To stop being ridiculed for his fake red hair, light skin and freckles, he rallies all the ginger kids everywhere to fight against the persecution and rise up to become the master race he believes they are intended to be.
For a class presentation, Eric Cartman discusses "gingers": people with red hair, freckles, and pale skin due to an alleged disease called "Gingervitis" (named after Gingivitis).
When Kyle makes his presentation, Cartman stands up for his claims and uses Biblical references, alleging that Judas Iscariot was a Ginger.
Eventually, Cartman convinces the Ginger kids to decide to kill all the town's non-gingers by telling them "The only way to fight hate… is with MORE hate!"
An hour before dawn, the boys decide to sneak into Cartman's room and change him back to his original appearance.
Now thinking only of self-preservation, he realizes that if his own cult were to learn of his true physical identity he too would die with every other non-"ginger kid" of the town.
They eventually settled on the idea that there were "true" gingers, like the ones Cartman starts associating with, and "daywalkers", people like Kyle with red hair but no freckles or light skin.
[2] In the episode, a man tells Stan and Kyle "If you really don't want to have ginger kids, marry an Asian woman.
He once had a girlfriend whose mother had red hair, and ended the relationship to avoid having redheaded children, and even admitted to harboring what he described as racial prejudice against gingers.
A second Kick a Ginger Day incident happened in 2013 at Wingfield Academy in Rotherham, Yorkshire, where red-headed students faced discrimination based on their hair-color.
Many parents were enraged by the incident, resulting in some of them fetching their children during the school hours out of fear of them being potential targets.
[7] A school spokesperson declared the incidents "deplorable acts" and stated that the entire institution was warned that students who continued such discrimination would also be punished.