More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war that had multiplied across the country — ones that, just days before, had seen what one faculty member called “heavy-handed, unnecessary violence against our students” by police.
“Among these white, woke, pampered, elitist — I’m not supposed to use that word — let’s say children from these wealthy families, that decide . . . that they’re going to play radical for a weekend and then go home to mommy and daddy’s mansion — there’s a complete ignorance about the complexities of this issue,” he told the audience of Morning Joe. “Of…