Is There a New, and Worse, Climate for All Disadvantaged People?

Apologies for the long absence. A move took up much of the staff's time for a couple of months.

The following, from a recent article by Laura Wagner, may indicate that a new discriminatory climate may be in effect which affects not only minorities, women, minority religions and various gender identifications, but also America's largest minority, the disabled:

[Meryl] Streep specifically mentioned the incident in which Trump mocked a disabled reporter. She said: “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.” . . . The National Review ran a column that called Streep a “moralizing hypocrite,” accusing her of choosing the “lazy method of showing empathy only for someone who shared her own ideals.”

The issue is not "empathy," it is the universal ethical standards of civility, decency, and toleration. To paraphrase "The Newsroom," how many kinds of disgusting do you have to be to mock someone of limited mobility?