History YMMV / TheTurnerDiaries

* OvershadowedByControversy: This book is probably best known for its association with Timothy [=McVeigh=], the Oklahoma City Bomber.

** See Defictionalization on the main page.

* DesignatedHero[=/=]DesignatedVillain: Even with literally every single racist stereotype Neo Nazis have about blacks, jews, liberals, gays, feminists, non nazi white people, etc, in full effect and taken up to 11, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns.

** The increasingly-stricter demands by public groups for gun control makes one wonder just ''how'' stupid the idea of Congress throwing out the Second Amendment might be.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non whites are inferior untermench who [[Series/DoctorWho WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!]]", and that all whites who take issue with this are just as subhuman in their "race treason" (and thus slated for extermination the same time as the Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, etc), this book has hardly been a fondly appreciated literary classic. Most bafflingly the book also targets almost all white supremacists (i.e its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks who will be swept away along with the untermench by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths.

* DesignatedHero[=/=]DesignatedVillain

* AcceptableTargets: *[[LongList inhales deeply]]*... Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Arabs, mixed-race people, liberals, conservatives, moderates, libertarians, communists, feminists, LGBTQ people, bisexuals, crossdressers, fetishists, sadomasochists, rednecks, interracial couples, and the "unfit". And all white people who don't also hate the above.

* AcceptableTargets: *[[LongList inhales deeply]]*... Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Arabs, mixed-race people, liberals, conservatives, moderates, libertarians, communists, feminists, homosexuals, bisexuals, crossdressers, fetishists, sadomasochists, rednecks, interracial couples, and the "unfit". And all white people who don't also hate the above.

* HarsherInHindsight: Barring every attempt to make this book a SelfFulfillingProphecy, the climax of the book involves the protagonist flying a plane into the Pentagon. Making it worse, the book's author responded to the 9/11 attack by ''writing in favor of al-Qaeda''. He did reject any notion that white supremacists should form an alliance with Arab terrorists, [[WeAREStrugglingTogether though only on the grounds that his racism overrode his desire for terrorism against Jews]].

* HarsherInHindsight: Barring every attempt to make this book a SelfFulfillingProphecy, the climax of the book involves the protagonist flying a plane into the Pentagon.

* NightmareFuel: [[ThePurge The Day of the Rope...]]. [[spoiler: to cut a long story short, the "heroic white freedom fighters" conquer LA and proceed to massacre all white women who have ever slept with a non white, or even merely been friends with them, and any white man who did the same, as well as any whites who opposed them.]]

* BileFascination: This book's notoriety has drawn the attention of people unaffiliated with its insane political viewpoints

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:All Jews and Non-Whites have been annihilated... in a lengthy campaign involving nuclear and chemical warfare, which has reduced Earth to a tenth its population and will most likely yield a severe fallout. But hey, at least this means the monsterous protagonists will die horrifically in said fallout.]]

* GodModeSue: The Organization itself. At not point does anyone give it any sort of real resistance despite the fact at the beginning it's woefully understaffed and later on it's massacring people left and right and [[spoiler: detonating nukes without hesitation at cities]] and nobody cares. The Organization suffers no real setbacks, no serious resistance, has no spies or traitors within it's ranks, and always accomplishes it's goals 100% of the time. Anytime anything negative occurs to the Organization it winds up actually being a plus in the long run to them. Countries and people seem to just roll over and allow themselves to die at the Organization's hands, while real life has shown as that the Organization would have been completely overwhelmed with massive partisan activity the moment it actually attempted to control territory.

* GodModeSue: The Organization itself. At not point does anyone give it any sort of real resistance despite the fact at the beginning it's woefully understaffed and later on massacring people left and right and [[spoiler: Detonating nukes without hesitation at cities]]. The Organization suffers no real setbacks, no serious resistance, has no spies or traitors within it's ranks, and always accomplishes it's goals 100% of the time. Anytime anything negative occurs to the Organization winds up being a plus in the long run. Countries and people seem to just roll over and allow themselves to die at the Organization's hands, while real life has shown as that the Organization would have been completely overwhelmed with massive partisan activity the moment it actually attempted to control territory.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non whites are inferior untermench who [[Franchise/DoctorWho WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!]]", and that all whites who take issue with this are just as subhuman in their "race treason" (and thus slated for extermination the same time as the Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, etc), this book has hardly been a fondly appreciated literary classic. Most bafflingly the book also targets almost all white supremacists (i.e its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks who will be swept away along with the untermench by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non whites are inferior untermench who [[DoctorWho WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!]]", and that all whites who take issue with this are just as subhuman in their "race treason" (and thus slated for extermination the same time as the Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, etc), this book has hardly been a fondly appreciated literary classic. Most bafflingly the book also targets almost all white supremacists (i.e its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks who will be swept away along with the untermench by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non whites are inferior untermench who [[DoctorWho WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!]]", and that all whites who take issue with this are just as subhuman in their "race treason" (and thus slated for extermination the same time as the Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, etc), this book has hardly been a fondly appreciated literary classic. Most bafflingly the book also targets almost all white supremecists (i.e its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks who will be swept away along with the untermench by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths.

* AcceptableTargets: *[[LongList inhales deeply]]*... Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Arabs, mixed-race people, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, communists, feminists, homosexuals, bisexuals, crossdressers, fetishists, sadomasochists, rednecks, interracial couples, and the "unfit". And all white people who don't also hate the above.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: To be expected in a novel with a white supremacist agenda. At one point, the attorney general of the United States government comes on television to describe the [[DesignatedHero heroes]] as "depraved, racist criminals".

* AcceptableTargets: *[[LongList inhales deeply]]*... Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, Arabs, mixed-race people, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, communists, feminists, homosexuals, bisexuals, crossdressers, fetishists, sadomasochists, rednecks, interracial couples, and the "unfit".
* AudienceAlienatingPremise

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:All Jews and Non-Whites have been annihilated... in a lengthy campaign involving nuclear and chemical warfare, which has reduced Earth to a tenth its population and will most likely yield a severe fallout.]]

* NightmareFuel: [[ThePurge The Day of the Rope...]]

* YouFailLawForever: The Cohen Act that bans all private ownership of guns would never pass in any US legal body with half a skull for starters.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the US Army would allow military discipline to sink below Vietnam War levels at their worst and be utterly incompetent at stopping a right wing terrorist group from getting their hands on nuclear launch control codes and working nukes.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Organization uses many of the same tactics as their enemies. Of course, it's justified when they do it, but when their foes use those techniques, it shows how evil and depraved they are

* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: Judaism is grossly misrepresented.

* AcceptableTargets: *[[LongList inhales deeply]]*... Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, mixed-race people, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, communists, feminists, homosexuals, bisexuals, crossdressers, fetishists, sadomasochists, rednecks, interracial couples, and the "unfit".