Lewis Hamilton: 'Older voices' should be refused platform to make offensive comments

Lewis Hamilton wants older voices with offensive views to be refused a platform to make comments.

Hamilton said that discrimination is not something we should be giving a platform for.

People are needed to bring people together.

The comments we are seeing are not helpful, he said.

The context of Hamilton's remarks is that triple world champion Piquet used a racially offensive term to refer to the seven-time champion.

In an interview on Good Morning Britain, the ex-F1 boss spoke of his support for the Russian President.

Hamilton said there needed to be some accountability. You know what you'll get with him.

I'm not sure what their goal is. They support the person who believes in the war, the displacement of millions of people, and the killing of thousands of people. That is what I heard today.

We don't need to support that anymore because we haven't seen the real pain yet. A lot of people want to be positive. They should not be given the space if they don't want to be positive.

We can't amplify the voices that are making that divide.

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Hamilton was referring to an interview given by another three-time champion, who said last week that he thought Hamilton should stop racing.

"These past two weeks I don't think a day has gone by without one of these people saying negative things or trying to bring me down," Hamilton said.

I'm here." We need to push for action.

I have always tried to be respectful. These guys are given a platform.

Discrimination and micro-aggressions in today's world are not helpful because they are creating more division. I like when Obama says, "When they go low, I go high."

Red Bull sacked their reserve driver after he made an offensive remark on an online gaming stream.

Hamilton was asked if he thought F1 had a racism problem. No-one should have to brush off racism and it shouldn't be for me to do that. We need big organizations to speak up.

The father of Verstappen's partner is also the father of a boy. The 2021 title rival and his team had not commented before Thursday.

Verstappen said at the British Grand Prix that everyone is against racism. Even though they said it when they were young, the wording was not correct and that will be a lesson for the future not to use that word.

Nelson is a nice and relaxed guy and I have spent a lot of time with him. You can see the word in two different ways but it is better not to use it.