‘The Kids Are Not All Right’: Morning Joe Crew Sounds Alarm on Future Protests Across College Campuses
NBC News reporter Tom Winter had a clear message for viewers of Morning Joe with regard to widespread pro-Palestine protests across college campuses: “The kids are not alright.”
At issue is a wave of pro-Palestinian protests of students insisting that their universities divest from Israel in protest of their attacks on Gaza following the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7th.
The comments came during Wednesday morning’s conversation at the New York set of Morning Joe following roughly a dozen college protests nationwide.
“It’s not just East Coast and West Coast and more, maybe, universities or colleges that are associated with, you know, liberal viewpoints,” Winter pointed out. “We’ve seen protests up and down and across this entire country.”
“I think it does underscore something that law enforcement is acutely aware of here as we continue into 2024,” Winter continued. Two things: One, the kids are not all right. The kids are graduating here on the traditional four-year high school, four-year undergraduate course. Their last graduation was held on Zoom because that was during the pandemic. They really need a graduation to happen. And so I think that they’re looking for that graduation.”
He then pivoted to what he called “the lack of interest, the lack of — the students today in younger generations feel that politicians and people in this country are listening to them. And so you saw this cause really being taken up in a way, across the country, across political spectrums, on campuses that we just haven’t seen before.”
He then pivoted to a larger concern, citing an anonymous former police chief telling him that warned: “Once people believe that violence is a way to solve problems politically, that’s a problem that can last for generations. So we obviously have seen January 6th, where people believe that that was the cause.
“Yeah. I was somewhat heartened last night that both from a police perspective and from a protester perspective, we didn’t see widespread chaos and violence at Columbia University,” he concluded. “Certainly, the way the NYPD appears to have handled it had help, but also give credit to the kids that said, ‘hey, look, enough is enough. They’re here. They’re here to make arrests.'”
Winter’s sounding the alarm about generational angst echoed statements made by Scott Galloway last week on Morning Joe, which went viral.
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