History YMMV / TheTurnerDiaries

* OvershadowedByControversy: This book is probably best known for its association with Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=] and several other Neo-Nazi terrorists.

* TearJerker: The ultimate conclusion sees the terrorist organization that had served as the "heroes" of the story destroying the System and sending nukes all across non-white countries to annihilate them. The world is a beaten-up husk with only small portions of it livable and the only free remnants of humanity mutants wandering a decayed husk. It's not any better for the surviving white people either, as the men will be used as an expendable labor force while the women will be turned into breeding machines under the ring of a dictatorship. Worse yet, there are people who genuinely believe that the future in this book should happen. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Why?]]

** The author tries to vilify The System by saying they condone all crimes as long they target white people and objectify people for their cause. However, the author tries to lionize The Organisation for doing the same by sacrificing people, murdering non-whites, and even killing people under false accusations. The lesson? "Revolutionaries can be just as bad as, if not ''worse'' than the oppressive system when they lack any noble goals or ideals."

* DesignatedHero: 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 UpToEleven, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness how they treat those among their number who fail in their mission]] ([[CreatorsPet except Turner, obviously]]), and this is with the knowledge that ''[[HeroWithBadPublicity they know they don't have any public support whatsoever]]''. In fact, these omnicidal nuclear terrorists would actually make for great villains in any other setting. As comically tyrannical as the System is in the story, the organisation often commit acts that are far worse as petty revenge in [[MoralMyopia a staggering display of hypocrisy]].

** The author pretty clearly wants to show that the white race will triumph over all others, becoming the One True Ethnicity of the planet. In doing so, the protagonists essentially destroy the planet and doom the rest of the human race to a long, futile struggle against nuclear winter, fallout, and ''90% of the entire planet's population being destroyed''. As a result, the message of the book comes across more like "white supremacy will literally end the world."

* ValuesDissonance: Partially because of the extreme political values, the book is incredibly divisive. Although one should note most of the population was obviously repulsed by this book when it came out as well.

* GeniusBonus: Take a good look at the colors of the book cover: [[ThoseWackyNazis red, white, and black]]. Look familiar together, don't they?

* FridgeHorror: Since the whole book is from the [[UnreliableNarrator perspective of Earl Turner]], there is the (very likely) possibility that he's distorting the events he's relating to the audience. It's possible that these "heroic white freedom fighters" are actually deranged terrorists who are murdering innocent people for arbitrary reasons. It's also quite possible that the world he is describing isn't even a dystopia in the first place. For all we know, Earl and his goons might just be grossly exaggerating western society's perceived failings to justify their atrocities.

* AccidentalAesop: The author pretty clearly wants to show that the white race will triumph over all others, becoming the One True Ethnicity of the planet. In doing so, the protagonists essentially destroy the planet and doom the rest of the human race to a long, futile struggle against nuclear winter, fallout, and ''90% of the entire planet's population being destroyed''. As a result, the message of the book comes across more like "white supremacy will literally end the world."

* DesignatedHero: 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 UpToEleven, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness how they treat those among their number who fail in their mission]] ([[CreatorsPet except Turner, obviously]]). In fact, these omnicidal nuclear terrorists would actually make for great villains in any other setting. As comically tyrannical as the System is in the story, the organisation often commit acts that are far worse as petty revenge in [[MoralMyopia a staggering display of hypocrisy]].

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

* DesignatedHero: 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 UpToEleven, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns. In fact, these omnicidal nuclear terrorists would actually make for great villains in any other setting.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non-whites are inferior untermenschen who [[Series/DoctorWho WE MUST EXTERMINATE!!! 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 [[PretenderDiss targets almost all white supremacists (i.e., its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks]] who will be swept away along with the untermenschen by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths. TruthInTelevision: Nazis and neo-Nazis alike had little respect for the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, as ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' makes clear. Also since Neo-Nazism tends to attract fringe people, a lot of white supremacist ranks aren't filled with the brightest or most fit people. Especially fitting since UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself didn't live up to his ideals of Aryan Purity.

* FridgeHorror: Since the whole book is from the [[UnreliableNarrator perspective of Earl Turner,]] there is the (very likely) possibility that he's distorting the events he's relating to the audience. It's possible that these "heroic white freedom fighters" are actually deranged terrorists who are murdering innocent people for arbitrary reasons. It's also be possible that this isn't even a dystopia. For all we know, Earl and his goons might just be grossly exaggerating western society's perceived failings to justify their atrocities.

* AccidentalAesop: The author pretty clearly wants to show that the white race will triumph over all others, becoming the One True Ethnicity of the planet. In doing so, [[spoiler: the protagonists essentially destroy the planet and doom the rest of the human race to a long, futile struggle against nuclear winter, fallout, and ''90% of the entire planet's population being destroyed'']]. As a result, the message of the book comes across more like "white supremacy [[spoiler: will literally end the world]]."

* FridgeHorror: Since the whole book is from the [[UnreliableNarrator perspective of Earl Turner,]] there is the (very likely) possibility that he could be distorting the events he's relating to the audience. It's possible that these "heroic white freedom fighters" are actually a gang of deranged far-right extremists who are murdering ordinary citizens they feel are deserving of retribution. It could also be possible that this isn't even a dystopia and that Earl and his goons are grossly exaggerating western society's perceived failings to justify their atrocities.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Earl Turner crossed it after [[spoiler: the bombing of the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.]]
** The Author crossed it after writing this book.

* MoralEventHorizon: Earl Turner crossed it after [[spoiler: the bombing of the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.]]

* DesignatedHero: 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 UpToEleven, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non-whites are inferior untermenschen 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 [[PretenderDiss targets almost all white supremacists (i.e., its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks]] who will be swept away along with the untermenschen by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths. TruthInTelevision: Nazis and neo-Nazis alike had little respect for the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, as ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' makes clear. Also since Neo-Nazism tends to attract fringe people, a lot of white supremacist ranks aren't filled with the brightest or most fit people. Especially fitting since UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself didn't live up to his ideals of Aryan Purity.

* NightmareFuel: [[ThePurge The Day of the Rope...]]. [[spoiler: to cut a long story short, the "heroic white freedom fighters" conquer UsefulNotes/LosAngeles 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.]]

* 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. The only upside is that the protagonists are probably going to contract radiation poisoning and die from the ensuing fallout, [[KarmicDeath which they are wholly responsible for]].]]

** A libertarian member of the racist organization early in its existence argues (quite correctly) that their wave of terror is doing nothing more than causing the government to clamp down even harder on normal Americans and that they're killing too many innocents which is causing the general public to hate them, which is entirely true. Of course the main character/narrator acts as if the man is insane and executes him for his objections.

* 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 monstrous protagonists will die horrifically in said fallout.]]
* FridgeHorror: Since the whole book is from the [[UnreliableNarrator perspective of Earl Turner,]] there is the (very likely) possibility that he could be lying or exaggerating the "villainy" of the System and minorities. Meaning him and his colleagues are killing normal people and justifying it with their ideology.

* CompleteMonster: The protagonists can be summed up as simply, pardon my French, "fucking evil", as could Pierce for thinking he was writing actual heroes rather than {{Villain Protagonist}}s. Throughout the book, they murder millions of innocent people for not being cishet able-bodied white, for not considering anyone different from themselves to be subhuman scum, for a HeelRealization, or even for being the wrong type of white supremacist bigot, and ultimately [[spoiler:destroy the world for the sake of racial purity]].

* CompleteMonster: The protagonists can be summed up as simply, pardon my French, "fucking evil", as could Pierce for thinking he was writing actual heroes rather than {{Villain Protagonist}}s. Throughout the book, they murder millions of innocent people for not being cishet able-bodied white or for not considering anyone different from themselves to be subhuman scum, or even for a HeelRealization, and ultimately [[spoiler:destroy the world for the sake of racial purity]].

* 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 attacks 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]]. This book also inspired Timothy [=McVeigh=] to orchestrate the Oklahoma City bombing, and few members of law enforcement were surprised; one FBI agent said that when he heard of the attack, he was reminded of the book "within the hour".

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Considering the book's key premise is that "all non whites are inferior untermenschen 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 [[PretenderDiss targets almost all white supremacists (i.e., its target audience) as being gutless cowards and drunks]] who will be swept away along with the untermenschen by the new "master race" which entirely consists of omnicidal Nazi psychopaths. TruthInTelevision: Nazis and neo-Nazis alike had little respect for the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, as ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' makes clear. Also since Neo-Nazism tends to attract fringe people, a lot of white supremacist ranks aren't filled with the brightest or most fit people. Especially fitting since UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself didn't live up to his ideals of Aryan Purity.

* DesignatedHero: 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 UpToEleven, the "villains" still seem far less evil and monstrous than the "heroes" due in no small part to the lack of omnicidal extermination campaigns.
* 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 monstrous protagonists will die horrifically in said fallout.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Earl Turner crossed it after [[spoiler: the bombing of the FBI headquarters in Washington DC.]]

* NightmareFuel: [[ThePurge The Day of the Rope...]]. [[spoiler: to cut a long story short, the "heroic white freedom fighters" conquer UsefulNotes/LosAngeles 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.]]