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I really liked the note it ended on about how the ritual of scapegoating tries to purify by casting out and discarding, sacrificing or ostracism. I'm made uncomfortable by the "cops on anarchist bookfairs" parable. My takeaway from that would be not to go to those events, instead of handing out propaganda potent enough to "turn" a cop, or use them to rate the propaganda. Although that was probably said half-joking. I understood the implied parallel between excluding "criminals" from society by prison or death sentence, and excluding cops from anarchist spaces, as if one could truly remove "criminal" or "cop" behavior from a group or space and achieve a sort of purity. I disagree with insisting on the "kill the cop in your head" slogan as a rhetorical go-to, since it's kind of overstated as a moralism enforcing not having morals and even not drawing hard lines and preferences. The cop in my head is me too, no shoes on the sofa please. Lots of things, people, and thoughts are "cops", but not all are like literal cops. Anyways, good totw chat food for thought.