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demmiblue

(36,875 posts)
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 12:55 PM Jun 2019

He always hated women. Then he decided to kill them.

Scott Paul Beierle’s attack on a Florida yoga studio was fueled by male supremacy, a movement with ties to other hate groups.

TALLAHASSEE — The first thing Kate Pierson did after unlocking the yoga studio that November afternoon was set the mood, plugging in the soothing waterfall, selecting a cheery lemongrass oil for the scent diffuser. The thermostat was turned up to 98 for the 5:30 class.

Hot Yoga Tallahassee was styled as a calming haven for a mostly female clientele. The men who practiced there, Pierson said, were men at ease with the “light and love” mission of the place.

But the man who walked in about 5:15 that Friday was different. Pierson was still alone in the lobby when he entered, a big guy whose maroon Florida State University T-shirt was stretched over a paunchy belly, the wrapper still on the yoga mat under his arm. A black Planet Fitness bag was strapped across his chest. Inside, she would learn soon, was a Glock 9mm pistol.

The man wasn’t on the list of 11 students preregistered for the evening class, and he seemed disappointed so few were expected. Handing over a debit card for the $12 walk-in fee, he identified himself as “Scott .?.?. Paul,” hesitating between the two words.

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It is a kind of hatred that experts in extremism warn is becoming more common and more dangerous, providing what amounts to a new feeder network for white supremacy and neo-Nazi groups.

“More and more, we see misogyny as the gateway drug for extremists,” said Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of more than 20 people interviewed to compile this account of Beierle’s history and the phenomenon it represents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/yoga-shooting-incel-attack-fueled-by-male-supremacy/?utm_term=.84aede149a37&tid=sm_tw
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He always hated women. Then he decided to kill them. (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2019 OP
Amazing and sad story. I kept thinking, as we all do, somewhere along his long line emmaverybo Jun 2019 #1
My company fired a guy like this gay texan Jun 2019 #2
"The hot ones all detest me, and I haven't a clue why." Dulcinea Jun 2019 #3
The only thing different these days Blue_Tires Jun 2019 #4

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
1. Amazing and sad story. I kept thinking, as we all do, somewhere along his long line
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 02:19 PM
Jun 2019

of offenses, this history of out loud, incessant, and active hatred, he should have been stopped. Certainly, he should not have been allowed to continue teaching. But that, though it only makes sense, would not have prevented these killings.
If the college women had gone forward, but again, he’d have received at most, more counseling—for sex addiction, anger management—maybe a bit of time or probation, some minimal monitoring.
So make hate talk a crime. Anti-Semitic speech is a crime in some European countries. No. Same deal. He’d have been ordered to sensitivity training. Fined.
The fact that there are thousands malcontent misogynists feeding each other online does not help
from a law enforcement standpoint. Which one will go on to a rampage? Between his writings and his behavior, pretty clear he had psychopathic tendencies, but unless we live in a minority report
society...
Given his run-ins, types of offenses, had he been charged, ordered to psychiatric evaluation, maybe in a state that had strong gun regulation...problem is he did not have a mental illness. And if he had a mood disorder concomitant to his social sickness, that would probably not have barred him even under stricter gun laws from possessing a gun. One would think a gestalt—sex offenses, a trail of violent writings, a psychological profile, participation in hate groups—all this could add up to some consequence that would have deterred him.
Other thoughts?








gay texan

(2,470 posts)
2. My company fired a guy like this
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 04:11 PM
Jun 2019

He bragged about being a Libertarian. Not to mention all women were genetically inferior in his eyes. All they wanted to do is marry up and improve their social status and bleed men of money.

This guy constantly bragged on himself as he thought he was the greatest thing in the world, and thought women should just flock to him.

The guy would never work. All he would do is stand around and run his mouth and get in the way and blame people for how bad is life was.

And, naturally, he liked guns. Large high caliber high capacity long-distance reach out and tag someone type of guns.

Dulcinea

(6,660 posts)
3. "The hot ones all detest me, and I haven't a clue why."
Sat Jun 8, 2019, 01:39 PM
Jun 2019

Well, maybe because they could tell how much you hated and feared them? There are plenty of average-looking men who don't lack for female companionship. That's because they actually LIKE women. Women have choices. Women don't have to settle for men who despise them.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
4. The only thing different these days
Sat Jun 8, 2019, 03:53 PM
Jun 2019

is now more and more people actively cheerlead for mass shooters and call them "heroes"

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