So I posted a joke on twitter quoting Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. The joke was

"A mexican, a jew and a colored fellow walk into a bar... The bartender looks up and says... Get the **** out of here"

Joy Miller read this and lost her mind... She told the CEO from victory poker that neither myself or any of the 20 sponsored pros would get any ESPN coverage until I gave a formal apology. I explained to her that it was a quote from a movie. She flipped out and started swearing and screaming at me about using the word colored. She sent me a bunch of angry texts, yelled at the CEO, and you can hear the voicemail she left swearing and yelling at me in the link below. I explained to her that the NAACP stands for the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, and if had a problem with the use of the world colored, she should seek an apology from them as well.

Thoughts?

Crazy Voicemail/video

NAACP

lolz

ppl are too uptight these days.

great movie btw

I think the NAACP is allowed to use the word colored similar to how black people are allowed to use the n word.

rofl

Pretty sure she made the right call on this one.

^no she did not

racist ban

Something tells me this free publicity isn't going to hurt Victory Poker... especially to the demographic they advertised towards.

She sounds like an idiot

maybe shes too up tight, however she is on point about you being a tool-bag

Wow is she dumb.

Good movie.

The NAACP comparison is foolish. The group was founded in 1909 when the term 'colored' was probably the nicest description of blacks one might use. OP is a tool

Just be sure to keep moving your head erratically when you make the final table so they will have a harder time focusing the blue dot over your face.

Funny how she zooms in on the word colored when jokes that start with 'Jew' or 'Mexican' have the same connotation as the word 'colored'.

At any rate, you have pretty poor judgment.

Maybe she's wrong in saying that the word coloured is offensive(and comes off as a bit of a tool), but that joke is blatently racist, you might find it funny in a movie, but it's really not ok for someone representing a company to post that openly on your twitter when the quote is just so out of context and is obviously gonna cause offense if people havn't seen the movie/don't find the joke funny.

get the f out of here

nits

wp op

lol

Would tend to agree with this view.

That said, once he explaiined its origin etc, I see no reason for her to continue to be so mad.

2 truths in video:

OP is a toolbag. This is true.

Joy Miller has lost her mind. This is true.

However, we love a tool-bag. We don't love a crazy bitch that's on her period. And not even black (afaik, since when do black women run anything?)

So are you calling colored people lazy for not taking the time to change their name after 100 years?

lol i love the fact that in the US you guys even bother saying coloured.
here we just say black.
and dan, the joke is funny and clearly not inciting so take no notice of that self-righteous bitch. shes probably just having her time of the month and thinks that everyone else has to suffer.


...women...