Arizona defensive Darnell Dockett has created a firestorm on Twitter after posting a racially insensitive joke aimed at Chinese people, Buzzfeed reports.
On Friday evening, Dockett tweeted: "Apple has a new device out for Chinese people. The iOpener," which was met with plenty of backlash, even prompting Deadspin to declare him "unfunny and racist" as well as a "dummy."
When one of Dockett's followers tweeted, "I predict that he 'fake apologizes' tomorrow. 'I am sorry if I offended anyone,'" Dockett responded, "I promise I won't...."
The day before, the NFL player tweeted, "I have learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is easy and fun is hell," suggesting he may have gotten a kick out of riling up the Twittersphere with his racially insensitive joke. When one follower later tweeted them that "sensitive people should not be allowed to use the internet," Dockett re-tweeted the comment in agreement.
Neither the Cardinals nor Dockett have addressed the tweets, though this isn't the first time that his social media account has been a source of controversy. Dockett has previously tweeted through a traffic stop, threatened to attack a former Florida State teammate for implying that he was gay, and attempted "to woo Katherine Webb, the model and beauty-pageant girlfriend of University of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron," according to Buzzfeed.
Click here to see all of Darnell Dockett's tweets concerning his racially insensitive joke on Twitter.
Apple has a new device out for Chinese people. The iOpener.
— DARNELL DOCKETT (@ddockett) December 21, 2013
