In this instance, Lewis Hamilton.
Lewis Hamilton has slammed Sir Jackie Stewart and Formula One legend Mario Andretti and labelled them ‘ignorant’ over their lack of support for his anti-racism campaign.
I don’t follow F1 as I find it tedious. Perhaps not quite as tedious as football, but pretty close. Lewis Hamilton is only on the periphery of my awareness. Indeed, what little I’ve seen has reminded me of an entitled, spoiled brat who needs to learn some manners, but maybe I misjudge him.
Hamilton quickly fired back at the 1978 world champion, replying: ‘This is disappointing but unfortunately a reality that some of the older generation who still have a voice today cannot get out of their own way and acknowledge there is a problem.
‘Again, this is plain ignorance but that will not stop me from continuing to push for change.
‘It is never too late to learn and I hope that this man who I’ve always had respect for can take the time to educate himself.’
Maybe I haven’t. Anyone who is so puffed up with their own self-importance who thinks that people need re-education in order to then express the correct opinion – one that is approved by this jumped-up jackanape – is not deserving of any respect. Indeed, ill mannered brat describes him perfectly.
The only one displaying ignorance here is Hamilton – unless he is happy to be associated with a far left, violent extremist Marxist group. If he is knowingly willing to be associated with them, being aware of their poisonous ideology, then he is a revolting person, worthy only of contempt.
That he is prepared to make the comments he did about two men who are his superiors in every respect merely makes him a jerk. But then, everything about his behaviour makes him a jerk.
Hopefully, more of his fellow drivers will refuse to participate in his vacuous virtue signalling and decline to kneel down in abasement to communist ideology, leaving him alone to show himself up for the pompous, preening poltroon that he is.
He’s had an open path to the top, because his skin colour.
Having had it given to him, now it’s all a fault of whitey.
Mercedes had to boost the engine by 200 BHP just to cope with the extra drag of his helmut.
There may be a broad point about opportunity in motorsports but it certainly doesn’t apply to Hamilton. In his case he was identified by McLaren at just 13 years old and sponsored and mentored.
He should be thanking Ron Dennis for the fact that he is now worth $400m
The only inequality that holds people back in motorsport is money. It’s hideously expensive. Therefore, by definition, Hamilton was privileged.
He;s also started sermonising everyone about Brexit from his pulpit in the tax haven of Monaco
I am suddenly of the opinion that this boy’s head has grown a bit too large and he has turned into another aching bore celebrity
I think he always was, it’s just that the whine has grown louder.
Hardest job on television is commentating on formula one. It’s just so difficult making it interesting.
And I yearn for the days back when I could watch sport without all the political bollocks…….
You may not either remember or have ever known, but Hamilton got into media trouble a while back for expressing ‘trans phobic’ comments regarding his nephew. He was then forced into a grovelling reverse ferret in order to try and manage the media damage. BLM was thus for him a gift that fell directly from Heaven straight into his lap: he could sound off, bury any past appropriation for good and regain maximum intersectional points. All without even a pit stop.
I’d forgotten that one.
There’s a vast reservoir of black talent just waiting to be tapped and ALL the F1 teams, striving for that extra millisecond on their lap times, are too racist to recognise the advantage they would gain by utilising it. It beggars belief, doesn’t it?
His position is completely absurd. It requires truly stratospheric levels of cognitive dissonance to be the richest driver in what is probably the richest most money driven sport in the world and proceed to broadcast your support for an organisation having the ending of capitalism as one of its main aims. To then make matters worse by maintaining that those who take a different view of BLM are ignorant proves, if proof were needed, that being one of the greatest racing drivers ever and being an arrogant fool are not mutually exclusive.
As mentioned elsewhere, I bet Mother’s Day is really shit in his house, with Hamilton insisting his (white) mother’s life is worth less than that of his (black) father.
Dear Mr Longrider
Apart from the fact that he is a very good racing driver – i.e. can go around a circuit faster than anyone else*, I have been ignorant of the man, in common with most ‘slebs’. Unfortunately my brother drew my attention to his dictatorial posturing, which did disappoint me about the man.
For one decreeing education for others, he is sadly lacking himself. It should be: “… I hope that this man whom I’ve always had respect for …”
Modern education.
DP
* Unless they let him, because …. I don’t think that is the case, though.