Article: Watson sorry about Dutchman slur

Southern Kings' rugby captain Luke Watson has expressed remorse about his controversial and disparaging slur about Afrikaners in 2008, Beeld reported on Tuesday.

He was recorded, without his knowledge, saying that the problem with South African rugby was that it was run by "Dutchmen".

"I'm very sorry I said that. It's one of the things in my life that I most regret," he told Sports Talk in a radio interview on Monday.
 
Luke Watson is good player. Could be a great player for South Africa. He just needs to learn to control his mouth.
 
I mentioned on Twitter at the time that the quote was shared that it was bizarre that the use of the word k_ffir is found so insulting yet people can happily refer to Afrikaners as Dutchmen.

Glad to hear he has had to apologise. He should probably be lynched though the same way people felt a "model" referring to k_ffirs should have been....
 
ClintZA said:
I mentioned on Twitter at the time that the quote was shared that it was bizarre that the use of the word k_ffir is found so insulting yet people can happily refer to Afrikaners as Dutchmen.

Glad to hear he has had to apologise. He should probably be lynched though the same way people felt a "model" referring to k_ffirs should have been....
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To be fair, he did lose his place in the springbok team and was made an outcast ultimately causing him to go play in England.
 
deni-do said:
To be fair, he did lose his place in the springbok team and was made an outcast ultimately causing him to go play in England.
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It was obviously meant sarcastically in reference to the calls for that model to be made an example of. However, this reference to Dutchmen was only yesterday so those "punishments" were not as a result of this.
 
ClintZA said:
It was obviously meant sarcastically in reference to the calls for that model to be made an example of. However, this reference to Dutchmen was only yesterday so those "punishments" were not as a result of this.
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Actually the reference to Dutchmen happened three years ago. The same speech where he said he wanted to puke on the Springbok jersey. In the week he just apologised for it again.

‘I have always taken accountability for how I have played and for what I have said. Where I have got it wrong or regretted an action or a comment I have always been prepared to make the necessary apology and I really thought that fronting the issue of what I said three years ago was dealt with three years ago,’ said Watson, adding: ‘It really disappoints me that an interview was so badly misrepresented and a comment of three years ago made the focus and given the appearance that I have again criticised a cultural element of South African rugby. I did not in a 702 Radio interview say the game in 2013 was still being run by Dutchmen and transformation, not just in a playing numbers, will and should always be a discussion and a debate because the purpose has to be to get the desired transformation as a country, not just in one particular sporting code. http://keo.co.za/2013/01/28/hatchet-media-job-on-watson/
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Actually I'm not offended by being called a Dutchman. If he said ****ing Dutchman, I would have been offended by the use of ****ing.
 
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Picard said:
Actually I'm not offended by being called a Dutchman. If he said ****ing Dutchman, I would have been offended and the use of ****ing.
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+1. Not sure why it's offensive. Are most Afrikaans people not descendants of the Dutch. It's like Pakis being offended by being called Pakis, it's short for Pakistani, what do you want?
 
Picard said:
Actually I'm not offended by being called a Dutchman. If he said ****ing Dutchman, I would have been offended and the use of ****ing.
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Well, me being offended depends on who I am ****ing.
 
abzo said:
+1. Not sure why it's offensive. Are most Afrikaans people not descendants of the Dutch. It's like Pakis being offended by being called Pakis, it's short for Pakistani, what do you want?
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Then there was this one dude last week who said that calling a Japanese person a Jap is offensive.
:what:
 
Shame, how's his vomiting problem going? I hope he still remembers to pick up some antiemetics before each game, all that barf wouldn't look great on those white Kings jerseys.

abzo said:
+1. Not sure why it's offensive. Are most Afrikaans people not descendants of the Dutch. It's like Pakis being offended by being called Pakis, it's short for Pakistani, what do you want?
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They're about just as much descended from Germans as from Dutch, not that it matters. It's not offensive, it just shows how daft the person saying it is. It's like calling English people Danes or Germans, since they're descended from those too (Angles/Saxons) but have nothing actually to do with the modern nations.
 
akescpt said:
is the problem that he said it or that the statement is true?
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I honestly think its more to do with the fact that he is a Watson. His dad doesn't have many fans in SA rugby due to his history during the apartheid era, as well as the fact that his father has too many political connections. Add to that the selection of luke into the Springbok team, due to political pressure and also apparently his dad trying to force Peter De Villiers to select Luke as captain of the national team, its no surprise that many want luke out.
 
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