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At a national radio station, a deejay plays a recording of monkey sounds. Then he says afterwards: “quiet Sylvana“. This comes after the noise around the monkey pronunciation van Johan Derksen. The political party Think, where Sylvana Simons is active in, wants the deejay to withdraw from a campaign against discrimination. They think it's hypocritical that he's in there, while he himself is racist against Simons. The deejay apologizes later and says it was bland.

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Responds in a television program about football Johan Derksen on a decision by a broadcaster to replace Zwarte Piet with the chimney Piet. He targets Sylvana Simons: “that hysterical Miss Simons who now runs through the country as proud as a monkey“. If the presenter wants to correct him by saying he “very proud” meant, Derksen responds: “She doesn't look like a peacock at all“. The broadcaster's decision to change Zwarte Piet today leads to a deluge of racist responses on social media. Geert Wilders of the PVV tweeted: “Word, word, word. Zwarte Piet is black and must remain black“. The deputy editor-in-chief of the broadcaster receives a death warning via the internet.

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Monday evening football commentator Johan Derksen for fuss by speaking out on television about Moroccan-Dutch footballers on the Dutch football fields. According to Derksen, some clubs would no longer function or even disappear because of an excessive percentage of players with a Moroccan background. He states that the clubs will no longer function and native players will move to other clubs. Derksen says that he does not care if people now like him as “racistWill put away. The Moroccan Dutch Partnership hereby demands apologies from both Johan Derksen as the commercial broadcaster he works for.