Tim Miller on Antioch High School Shooting: Political Radicalization and Gun Violence Tragedy in Tennessee

[00:00] hey guys this Tim Miller from the bwork

[00:01] uh wanted to weigh in on this tragic

[00:03] story out of Tennessee uh yet another

[00:06] school shooting not too long after the

[00:08] Covenant School shooting that rocked the

[00:10] state um this time it is at Antioch High

[00:14] School uh it happened yesterday morning

[00:16] Wednesday morning one student is dead

[00:19] and another is wounded in the shooting

[00:22] uh you know look unfortunately there's

[00:25] so many of these that sometimes it's

[00:27] like how do you know when to weigh in

[00:30] what to comment on um I I think that as

[00:32] we head into a new Administration when

[00:35] it seems like there's not going to be

[00:36] any energy around uh additional

[00:40] regulations regarding school safety

[00:42] regarding guns uh clearly there is some

[00:46] political uh salience here uh but I

[00:49] think in this particular case um it is

[00:51] worth weighing in on fromont political

[00:53] lens uh because the shooter himself uh

[00:57] has allegedly said in his own writings

[01:01] uh that he was politically motivated so

[01:03] I want to turn to this report from the

[01:06] Nashville Banner um just want to shout

[01:09] out the local Folks at Nashville banner

[01:10] and and at Tennessee holler my friends

[01:12] at the Tennessee holler who have been

[01:14] covering this um uh the Nashville Banner

[01:18] though has this uh he said the shooter

[01:21] said that his radicalization was in part

[01:23] due to a number of far-right figures

[01:24] including Nick Fuentes and former

[01:26] nashvillian Candice Owens quote Candace

[01:30] Owens has influenced Me Above All each

[01:33] time she spoke I was stunned by her

[01:35] insights and her own views helped push

[01:38] me further and further into the belief

[01:40] of violence over the Jewish question

[01:44] first on Fuentes I I assume most people

[01:46] watching this feed know but uh uh he is

[01:49] a

[01:50] farri

[01:52] um radical

[01:54] conspiracist um that uh is the

[01:57] figurehead of a group called The gers

[01:59] that

[02:00] um has a large strain of kind of white

[02:05] identitarianism um uh there's some sport

[02:08] of trump but uh you know a lot of uh

[02:11] what you see from the gers is from kind

[02:13] of this altright tradition uh that is

[02:16] focused a lot on racial politics

[02:19] whiteness makeup of the country um and

[02:22] it is a kind of a rare corner on the

[02:24] right that is uh pretty hostile to

[02:27] Israel um Candace Owens is another

[02:30] member of that rare Corner um you know I

[02:32] wrote a profile on her about a year ago

[02:35] now and um and used to spend a lot of

[02:38] time listening to Candace's podcast kind

[02:40] of get a sense what was happening on the

[02:42] magar right uh before she had a falling

[02:45] out with Ben Shapiro over these issues

[02:48] and it was kind of interesting that Ben

[02:49] Shapiro um who Jewish and a Zionist was

[02:52] platforming her at the daily wire for so

[02:54] long while she was you know kind of uh

[02:56] advancing a lot of you know sort of a

[03:00] lot of talking points that are um

[03:02] echoing of what you hear from

[03:05] anti-semitic quarters um you know she

[03:07] was doing a decent amount of dog

[03:09] whistling if you were um you able to

[03:13] hear the frequency which uh you would

[03:15] think Shapiro would have been uh but

[03:17] eventually this kind of reached ahead

[03:18] during the Israel Palestine crisis and

[03:21] um she left and so I haven't been

[03:23] following her um podcast as closely over

[03:25] the last year as I was but you know the

[03:28] fact that she gets pushed out of the

[03:30] daily wire basically over her

[03:33] willingness to advance um you know at

[03:36] some level anti-semitic conspiracy

[03:38] theories at least that was you know how

[03:40] that the argument was framed um and now

[03:44] to have this kind of

[03:47] online radicalism and online dispute

[03:52] come offline in the very Community where

[03:55] um she uh was

[03:57] living I you know I I just think it's a

[04:00] reminder about how real this stuff is

[04:03] and um this is always the challenge when

[04:05] you are talking about you kind of racism

[04:08] and anti-Semitism and radicalization

[04:11] online is that if you look at not really

[04:15] Candace Candace is pretty self- serious

[04:17] but if you look at the Nick fentis

[04:18] material there's always a tinge of humor

[04:21] to it right it's like am I doing a

[04:22] racist joke or am I being really racist

[04:25] right like do I think that you know that

[04:28] the um number of people died at the at

[04:31] at concentration camps was

[04:33] exaggerated or am I just you know kind

[04:36] of pretending to think that as some sort

[04:39] of broader commentary about how I don't

[04:41] like wokeism you know what I mean like

[04:42] they always do like many of them have

[04:45] this kind of tongue and cheek element to

[04:46] it and so I think that in turn then

[04:50] creates tension right about how people

[04:53] that are trying to call it out um do

[04:56] right you know there's this question of

[04:58] oh do I Elevate this

[05:00] um by mentioning it right do I does it

[05:04] make me seem stupid if I am calling

[05:06] somebody out for you know racist jokes

[05:09] if they're just saying oh it was just

[05:10] humor right um am I going overboard by

[05:13] making EXA EXA accusation right all

[05:16] these conversations were happening right

[05:17] around the must thing right like am i m

[05:20] uh you know there's this like backsplash

[05:23] that comes against the people that are

[05:24] trying to fight anti-Semitism you know

[05:27] if there are examples where it seems

[05:30] like you know they're seeing something

[05:32] that isn't there or they're exaggerating

[05:33] it or they're or they're you know not

[05:35] not laughing with the boys at the locker

[05:38] room talk right all you know all this

[05:41] stuff gets removed from real life in the

[05:43] conversation on social media and in a

[05:46] situation like this you see why it

[05:50] matters like why there is real life

[05:53] consequences you know um because not

[05:57] everybody is in on the joke

[06:00] some people are in on the joke and are

[06:02] and are taking it

[06:03] seriously and um you know it's just so

[06:07] tragic that this appears to be one of

[06:10] these you know uh one of these

[06:12] situations um at least according to the

[06:14] reporting that we're getting early

[06:15] obviously a lot of this stuff uh

[06:17] develops we'll continue to monitor

[06:19] monitor if there's new kind of

[06:21] information that comes out and the other

[06:22] thing I want to share that my friends at

[06:24] Tennessee holler shared just about this

[06:26] tragic

[06:27] situation um is this uh this clip uh

[06:31] from from a mother of a a teen at school

[06:33] it's fine Mom it

[06:37] happens it should it though it's my

[06:40] 16-year-old is like oh it's fine Mom it

[06:42] happens um and as a mom how does it make

[06:46] you feel to hear that it breaks my

[06:49] heart it breaks my heart that it's

[06:52] normal it should not be normal that's

[06:55] the other thing that's sad about this to

[06:57] me right like there's the political

[06:58] element of this but there's also just

[06:59] the human element um I've been uh you

[07:04] know I don't know if you saw but I did

[07:05] another video with Cam casky uh who

[07:08] started March for our lives after

[07:10] Parkland um where he he was there at

[07:12] Parkland during that mass shooting I was

[07:14] talking to him yester uh the other day

[07:16] and and I've been talking to a bunch a

[07:17] couple of other um folks that are

[07:19] younger that at some level uh

[07:22] experienced um gun violence in their

[07:25] schools and and one thing that is just

[07:29] apparent in having these conversations

[07:32] is just the resignation you know the

[07:34] resignation that you see from that uh

[07:36] from the story that that mother tells

[07:38] about her uh 16-year-old right that this

[07:41] is just kind of what happens like we

[07:43] just have to accept this

[07:47] um I mean it's kind of hard to argue

[07:49] against that particularly if you look

[07:50] over the next four years given the new

[07:52] Administration we have then in but um

[07:55] these fights are long these battles are

[07:58] long it is one that I have been um

[08:01] transformed by um in My Views and I

[08:04] don't think this is something we have to

[08:05] accept and I think it is important to

[08:07] call it out and not just get numb to it

[08:10] and so we will continue to monitor it

[08:12] here um you can subscribe to the feed

[08:14] thanks again to the folks of the

[08:15] Nashville banner and Tennessee holler

[08:16] doing the reporting on the ground uh and

[08:19] we'll talk to you guys again soon