The subtext seemed to be that women were dumb and malleable. Lana would never have said that outright. When it came to recruitment, she preferred serving up compliments to shaming. She told women that their blond hair and blue eyes—or, if they didn’t have those traits, their white skin—were rare and enviable. “A lot of these white girls are tired of being told that white is boring, white is common, white is not diverse,” she told me. If flattery didn’t work, Lana tried other techniques. She asked women: Wasn’t it terrible that the mainstream media attacked “average housewives” like Ayla?
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