Line #9 YMMV/TheTurnerDiaries


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2	* AccidentalAesop:
3	** 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 "racism will literally end the world."
4	** 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? "[[FullCircleRevolution Revolutionaries can be just as bad as]], if not ''worse'' than the oppressive system when they lack any noble goals or ideals."
5	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a story where a group of fanatical white supremacist terrorists are portrayed as heroes. Needless to say, it doesn't have any fans who aren't also on that end of the political spectrum, and is [[BannedInChina banned in many nations]].
6	* BileFascination: This book's notoriety has drawn the attention of people unaffiliated with its insane political viewpoints.
7	* DesignatedHero: Comes with the territory of Neo-Nazis being the good guys.
8	** Even with literally every single racist stereotype Neo-Nazis have about Blacks, Jews, liberals, gays, feminists, non-Nazi white people, etc, in full effect, 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]] (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]].
9	** [[TheHero Earl Turner]] himself is arguably one of the most horrible protagonists in fiction who the audience is asked to root for. Among his "exploits", he: [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero is openly racist and antisemitic]] to the point of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust holocaust denial]] and claiming the Nuremberg trials were a KangarooCourt, blows up an FBI building with a truck full of explosives, [[WouldHurtAChild caves in the skulls of two 13-year old girls]] for "being sluts" (by that, he means just associating with a black man), murders the family of a sheriff who was on his tail, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil stands by his allies committing rape]], willingly participates in [[ThePurge the day of the rope]] and flies a plane into the Pentagon in a suicide attack, with his efforts all culminating in [[NukeEm the entire world being bathed in nuclear fire]] and the complete genocide of all non-whites. In any other story, he would be an easy CompleteMonster candidate, but he's seen as the hero of mankind in this story.
10	* DesignatedLoveInterest: Earl and Catherine, full stop. Earl doesn't really talk much about Catherine until he walks in on her in the shower and they immediately wind up [[SexStartsStoryStops having sex for no real reason]]. Their relationship doesn't really evolve much from that despite the author constantly saying they "love" each other.
11	* EsotericHappyEnding: All Jews and non-Whites have been annihilated... in a lengthy campaign involving nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, which has reduced Earth to a tenth of its population and will most likely yield a severe fallout. [[KarmicDeath The only upside is that the protagonists are probably going to contract radiation poisoning and die from the ensuing fallout they caused]].
12	* HarsherInHindsight:
13	** Barring every attempt to make this book a SelfFulfillingProphecy, the climax of the book involves the protagonist flying a plane into the Pentagon. The book's author 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]].
14	** 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".
15	** The end of the book concludes with the statement that "just 110 years after the birth of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Great One]], the dream of a white world finally became a certainty... and the Order would spread its wise and benevolent rule over the earth for all time to come." Exactly 110 years after Hitler's birth date, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School massacre]] occurs, perpetrated by two students who wanted to outdo the aforementioned Timothy [=McVeigh=]'s Oklahoma City bombing in bodycount and carnage[[note]]they originally wanted to do it on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing but postponed it to the following day due to receiving ammunition later than expected. Said following day just so happened to be Hitler's birthday[[/note]].
16	* InferredHolocaust: The story ends with a massive nuclear holocaust and billions of people dead. The white supremacists are probably not gonna enjoy their white-only world for too long, what with the radiation and massive environmental damage.
17	* InformedWrongness: The government is supposedly evil in this story, but considering the Organization commits abominable acts like teenage murder and lynching, one might actually be rooting for the government to defeat this band of racist psychopaths.
18	* MemeticMutation:
19	** With the odd fixation of the metric system imposed by The System, even detractors often cite that said adoption of the metric system being the sole benefit of this alternate universe the book describes. Even so, they admit that the tradeoff isn't worth it.
20	** A more sinister one is that "day of the rope", used to describe the Organization's mass-lynchings against perceived race traitors in Los Angeles, has become a byword in white supremacist circles to describe their desire to [[ThePurge purge all their enemies]].
21	* {{Narm}}:
22	** THE ENTIRE BOOK. It's so stupid and impossible that it can stop being disturbing for readers and just a source of humor. Whether or not it's disturbing that Neo-Nazis actually believe talking points in the book is another matter.
23	** "Someone get that honky cat."
24	%%Overshadowed By Controversy cut per Cleanup thread. The book, as one of the most infamous Neo-Nazi stories ever written, has very little but controversy to discuss about it.
25	%%Link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15417159170A60176600&page=98#comment-2441
26	* RootingForTheEmpire: More than a few readers hoped that the System would destroy the Organization.
27	* StrawmanHasAPoint:
28	** 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 terrorists".
29	** 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 ignores the man's observations and has him executed for not being fully committed to the [[FinalSolution cause]].
30	* 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.
31	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: There is practically no one worth rooting for in this book. Turner and his cohorts are {{Designated Hero}}es of the highest order and everyone else seems to be a racial stereotype.

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