07-24-2015, 11:27 PM
(07-24-2015, 11:13 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well the context here was that O'Malley was getting interviewed in a sitdown and the forum was over-taken by people protesting and pushing their own agenda. His reply to quell the demonstration was to suggest "all lives matter". To support the booing of that speaks volumes
O'Mally gets it. That is why he apologized. In that context his comments were inappropriate.
It was also inappropriate for the protesters to interrupt him in the first place, but he should have commented on that instead of saying their cause was not valid. Just because people use the wrong techniques to protest does not mean they do not have a valid complaint. You have to be able to condemn their techniques without condemning their cause.
