I thought the reason he did was to enhance his “wokeness & antiTrumpness” section of his Hollywood resume? Wasn’t he about to be dropped from some TV seies?
He doesn’t need to be part of a conspiracy to do that. He just needs to do it. Apparently being gay black is no longer sufficent a suffient resume point, an acting resume needs more.
Ideology could be part of the motivation, but many of us suspect there is more to the story.