Another incident in 2017 showed how the awards platform can be used for doing well. Actress Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the Golden Globes to call out the then President-elect Donald Trump for trampling on the freedom of the press and reminded those in Hollywood of the responsibility of empathy.
Streep voiced her heartbreak at Trump’s mocking of a disabled reporter. “And 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,” she said. “Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence.” Indeed, Streep’s speech remains relevant even today.
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