Because people said he should
Brendan O'Neill on the witch-hunting of Lewis Hamilton for saying boys shouldn't wear dresses:
'Hamilton has now apologised. He has prostrated himself before the middle-class media mob and begged for its forgiveness. Literally. "I hope I can be forgiven for this lapse in judgement", he said. This is such an ugly spectacle. That people can be forced by mob pressure to plead publicly for forgiveness for their opinion is immeasurably worse than anything Hamilton said. It points to a tyranny of conformism, an informal yet brutal policing of public opinion, the rise of an unforgiving morality-guarding brigade that will trample over any different or daring ideas and demand absolute obedience to the okayed ideologies. If you think Hamilton's video was "horrifying" but this response is okay, then your moral compass is officially broken.'
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