I'm not deflecting. You are moving goalposts.
You originally questioned the "convenient" comment. Which was in reply to a poster who quoted a source which left it out of the statement Hamilton made. Which in turn was a reply to my post where he specifically countered the "still I rise comment" and used the quote to justify that Hamilton didn't say it. So my reply to you was framing all that context, that's all.
Re: the "still I rise" comment itself, I thought I'd already explained that I felt that was silly as contextually it still makes him out to be the victim. Why is he rising still? the guy's the most successful driver in the most dominant machinery ever. What does he have to rise against? And even looking at the whole quote he doesn't actually retract anything but still frames himself as valiantly battling against the odds. Which again I think is nonsense. So yeah, I think he's still trying to play the victim card and I think that's both completely unnecessary and well overdone. I could be wrong here but I think even you at one point said his statements were a bit cringeworthy, so I don't see the problem with me also thinking it's all a bit much
Sorry shure, but you’ve missed the key point of what Marklar has said. That is, you each differ between your perceptions of “still I rise”. Contextually. Marklar already pointed out in his post why he sees no negativity in the phrase, using the example of Lewis saying the same phrase immediately when he won the championship last year.
FWIW I think Lewis does use the phrase in several contexts. He uses it as a celebration of success, such as when he won the championship. He uses it as a ‘fighting against all odds’ context that you’ve highlighted. He also uses it as a “bounce back” context such as what Marklar suggests he did at the end of his instagram apology.
Anyway I do agree with you that Lewis has a bit of syndrome of ‘against all odds” mentality. I think it’s deep rooted likely from many factors, his race, upbringing, experiences in early days of karting, has probably skewed his way of looking at things where he’s quick to perceive being unfairly attacked because he’s expecting to be. Because he was, in the early days, it’s shaped his perception. In any case I think that also brings out the best and strongest Lewis Hamilton. I think he almost needs something to fight and rail against to really bring out the last couple of tenths in his talent. Toto has already alluded to this previously and I think Lewis himself, subconsciously at the very least realises the same and creates these perceptions in his own mind to feed off it. Flawed genius as they say.