
Hollywood acting legend Meryl Streep made a speech at this year’s Golden Globes that, among other things, expressed concern over disrespect and violence toward people with special needs in the current political climate. That’s certainly something we worry about as parents, too, as we’re bombarded with news about people with disabilities being mocked and attacked and abused. As much as I appreciate anybody bringing these concerns to a large audience, though, and calling this mistreatment out as wrong, I couldn’t help but think that the speech was the equivalent of those messages that crop up on Facebook from time to…