I think publicly chastising someone for making a rude comment is just as rude as the comment was in the first place. In this case, the best way to deal with rude behavior that you consider unforgiveable is to exclude that person from your life. Since the way these people enter our lives is on screen (not much of an intrusion, when you think about it--I sure as hell wouldn't want Tom Cruise in my house, but I may be capable of watching him in a film, if it were possible to separate his personality from his performance), don't watch interviews with them, and don't watch their films or television shows.

Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of people who want everyone to know they were offended by xyz comment, because they feel that they should punish people they don't know personally, not to mention hurting their career if possible, for comments that were not made to or about them, or even in their presence. The practice seems excessive and inappropriate to me, not to mention, in an advocacy group, this is a trivial issue. Why spend your time complaining about being offended when you should be fighting discrimination and so on.

...or are they punishing them because, if they make offensive comments, they may discriminate against their group at some point in the future? If that's the case, I suppose it's a familiar tactic, but it isn't very reasonable.