The self-destructive nihilism reached a peak when participants denounced white American women as “pig mothers” and debated killing white babies so as not to bring more “oppressors” into the world. “Anything was applauded as long as it was against the American system, as long as it outraged middle-class morality, as long as it terrified the bourgeoisie, made them think they were next,” explained one attendee. “We psyched ourselves up with a disgusting romanticization of violence,” said another. But a third put it best: “Paranoia plus egotism plus a worldview that obliterated all subtlety
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