So you probably caught the story about Luke Watson on iol which refers to a Rugby365 article about some comments that he made. This, a follow-up to the recent resurfacing of the tiresome notion to scrap the Sprngbok emblem.

Luke Watson – pumping iron

He said the “bigger picture” kept him from vomiting on the Springbok jersey and that “the men who sit on my left and right of me in the change room despise me for who I am”.

“We need to see the bigger picture and realise that the here and now is not just the here and now, but the here and now only exists because of those who went before us and because of those who are still to come,” he was quoted as saying during a rugby festival at the University of Cape Town earlier this month.

“Me having to wear the Springbok jersey, to keep myself from vomiting on it, because there is a bigger picture, because men and women have bled for me to get there.”

Ja, quite a vibe.

So today the story continues, as “PRAAG CONDEMNS LUKE WATSON’S AFRIKANER HATE.” Now, before you start wondering what the Czech Republic has to do with rugby or Luke Watson, I should inform you that PRAAG actually stands for the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group.

They’re pretty pissed off.

Check this out from a brand new press release:

The leader of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group (PRAAG), Dr. Dan Roodt, has condemned rugby player Luke Watson’s recent outburst of Afrikaner hate. PRAAG lamented “the subsistence of the age-old colonial hatred that significant numbers of English people still harbour towards Afrikaners.

In a statement also available in Afrikaans on www.praag.co.za, the pro-Afrikaans think tank and NGO said that Luke Watson was beating the same drum as Nadine Gordimer and other icons of Afrikaner hate in South Africa and their real home, Great Britain. Watson wants to vomit on the Springbok name because it is Afrikaans. His preposterous wish to have all so-called ‘Dutchmen’ removed from the national team is tantamount to a Freudian slip, betraying the genocidal fantasies that are still part and parcel of what it means to be ‘English’ in South Africa.

Roodt continued by saying that there was “an intimate connection between South Africa’s flirtations with left-wing totalitarianism and the colonial wish to kill, wipe out, suppress or exclude the Afrikaner people or individual Afrikaners from public life. Anti-Afrikaans sentiment usually flourishes in left-wing English circles or among anglicised members of the black elite who have been admitted into the club of jingoist Rooinek commies on the basis of their common hatred of Afrikaans and the Afrikaner people.

According to PRAAG, it was not surprising that Watson’s remarks were made at the University of Cape Town, which has long been a centre, not only of left-wing thought, but also of the most vicious Afrikaner hatred. “At one level, one cannot really blame Watson so much, who is but the product of English institutions such as the Un iversity of Cape Town and some of the more elitist English schools where Afrikaner hatred and invective about ‘Dutchmen’ form part of the official curriculum.

Roodt described Watson’s claim of being an “anti-racist” as both laughable and disingenuous. “Both Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin are also on record as having been opposed to racism and discrimination. Watson’s use of the ‘Dutchmen’ terminology betrays his allegiance to the mindset of Kitchener and Roberts, the architects of the Boer concentration camps, and which holds that South Africa is an English country or colony and that Afrikaners have no place in it.

What makes Watson’s notion of South African rugby without any Afrikaners even more ludicrous, said the leader of PRAAG, is his own mediocrity as well as the mediocrity of the English players and quota players generally. The unpalatable truth is that if the Springbok team or a new national team under some politically correct English name had to purge itself of Afrikaner players, it would consistently lose and be relegated to the level of the current Zimbabwean national team.

PRAAG appealed to all Afrikaners and all patriots, including those English-speakers who had left colonialism and Afrikaner hatred behind, to unite behind the fight to retain the Springbok name.

Jeepers! And you thought you had hassles.

This was part of Watson’s response: “We as an entire family have historically fought against discrimination of any sort. How could I possibly be accused of an anti-Afrikaner attitude? My maternal grandmother is a Van Rensburg, my paternal great-grandmother was a Schoeman and my aunt is a Swanepoel.”

I hear you.

Thank God most of my buddies are black gay handicapped Jewish Afrikaners.

I’m covered.