The way he acted in an open setting showed extremely poor judgment. I don't think that can be argued. He made a mistake. However, the sad thing is that whenever something like this happens, the way some people react is much, much worse.
Several months ago, a woman lost her job because she made the bad decision of posing in front of a memorial while making rude gestures, then the infinitely worse decision to post that picture online. Many people were outraged. Those comments about the woman, though, were horrible. In my opinion, they went way, way beyond what she did. They were much more offensive but the thing is, we overlook them because they were anonymous.
The same with the football player who recent left his team for being bullied. Simply put, some of the comments about him are sickening.
Sadly, there probably isn't a real solution out there, except that people need to be careful. There are a lot of garbage people out there who throw away their respect for others when they're sitting behind a monitor.
