History Literature / TheTurnerDiaries

* CosyCatastrophe: The climax of the book involves a literal nuclear war where hundreds of nukes are launched and dozens of cities are completely destroyed by megaton nuclear weapons and yet there's absolutely no mention of the nuclear winter that surely must have occurred. In the epilogue it's revealed the Organization again uses a large amount of nukes and biological weapons against the Chinese army and causes massive swaths of land in Asia to be uninhabitable but none of the fallout or biological weapons seem to blow back onto the Organization.

** Turner himself is guilty of it. A scene has him watching a teenage girl he knew getting lynched by the Organization. Though he admits to feel sympathetic towards her for getting summarily executed in such a brutal manner, he ultimately reasons that it was necessary, because it sends the signal that no one can from the punishment of breaking the Organization’s rules, no matter their excuse. This is despite the fact that Turner was earlier explicitly ordered by the Organisation to commit suicide rather than letting himself getting taken alive, but when he was actually cornered by law enforcement, he ultimately chickened out and allowed himself to be captured. But he is very easily let off the hook for this once he makes his escape and regroups with the Organization, simply because he was able to come up with a convincing enough excuse.

** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Slavs are starting to become more accepted in white nationalist environs]], partly because of Russian conduct in Chechnya and Syria, and partly because of rising Far-Right sentiment in that country. Some Neo-Nazis, especially in America given that white Americans tend to be a mix of various ethnic groups (sometimes even Non-European ones), tend to favor ''white'' supremacy over ethnic supremacy like Nordic or Slavic supremacism or even ethno-national supremacy like what was demonstrated when various Yugoslav groups exterminated each other in the 90s. Even back in World War II it was not uncommon for the European far right to decry America as a mongrel nation whose whites were too mixed.

%% * SoiledCityOnAHill: How the protagonists view the entire world.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The book makes allusions to "The Great One", a historical figure Earl Turner's group considers one of the biggest luminaries of history. But even from the few facts told about him, especially that he was born in 1889, it is pretty transparent, even bordering on outright blatant, that they are talking about UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. Given that Pierce was a Neo-Nazi, it's anything but surprising.

** The entire ending reaches an absolute wall-banging levels of insane troll logic that had to be read to be believed. [[spoiler: The Organization has heard info that the United States is about to nuke the Organization's enclave in Southern California in response to their own nukings of UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} and Charleston using suitcase nukes. In order to prevent this from happening, the Organization decide to fire off their own ballistic nukes from their only missile silos at Vandenberg at targets at both UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity for revenge but also at the Soviet Union to force a counter response. The first thing wrong with this is that in order to prevent their own imminent nuking, they decide to launch nukes at the United States which is obviously just going to bring an earlier retaliatory strike and doesn't do anything to prevent the launches anyway. They decide that if they were to nuke the Soviet Union too, they would force a Soviet response in kind and damage the United States itself via the Soviet retaliatory strike. Now where it goes off the wall is that the Organization phones the Pentagon after the launches and tells them that the only way they can get out of this is by themselves joining the nuclear strike on the Soviets to destroy the Soviet missiles before they're able to launch in response. The massive problem with this is that the Organization has already nuked two American cities and released a proclamation stating their end goal is to kill off all non-whites on the planet Earth. The United States could easily have contacted the Soviets and told them that the missiles were launched by the Organization and not themselves and the Soviets could have seen that the missile launches were coming from Organization territory and might prevent a Soviet retaliatory attack on the United States itself. Even if the Soviets still nuke in response at least the United States has a clear and justifiable reason to nuke the Organization to glass later and get world sympathy. Instead the United States somehow decide that going along with the Organization is the perfect plan and start launching nukes at the Soviets. Despite the surprise enough Soviet nukes get through to destroy twenty major American cities and kill sixty million Americans instantly. Now at least you can reason that since it's the end of the world and all that at least the Organization is now a flaming wreck too since they started the nuclear exchange in the first place right? Nah, the United states only launches one nuke at California, which destroys the now empty missile silos. Somehow the Organization is able to prevent their California Enclave from getting nuked by launching nukes preemptively at the two countries with the largest nuclear stockpiles in the world and escape from it largely unscathed.]]

* MutuallyAssuredDestruction: Pierce did not seem to understand the concept very well. [[spoiler:Several times the Organization uses nuclear weapons on civilian targets and yet nobody thinks to use nuclear weapons to strike back at them despite the fact it's made abundantly clear that the organization is going to keep using them regardless. At the climax of the book the Organization forces both the United States and the Soviet Union to start launching nukes at each other and at no point does the United States think to just nuke the Organization's headquarters in Los Angeles since nukes are already flying anyway and MAD is already in progress. Gets rather ridiculous when 60 million Americans have perished and New York City and Baltimore have been wiped off the map due to Organization and Soviet nukes and yet the Organization still threatens to use nukes on the United States to get them to not nuke their headquarters despite the fact they already did so multiple times and have been actively using them.]]

* CopKiller: A few members of the Organization kill the sheriff of Cook County in retaliation of the deaths of one of their members. Later, these members get into a shootout with the police and target exclusively black officers. Turner himself blows up the FBI headquarters with a truck bomb. Finally, when the Organization takes control of southern California, they destroy the LAPD headquarters using M60 tanks, presumably killing anyone who does not manage to escape.

** Turner himself is guilty of it. A scene have him watching a teenage girl he knew getting lynched by the Organisation. Though he admits to feel sympathetic towards her for getting summarily executed in such a brutal manner, he ultimately reasons that it was necessary, because it sends the signal that no one can from the punishment of breaking the Organisation's rules, no matter their excuse. This is despite the fact that Turner was earlier explicitly ordered by the Organisation to commit suicide rather than letting himself getting taken alive, but when he was actually cornered by law enforcement, he ultimately chickened out and allowed himself to be captured. But he is very easily let off the hook for this once he makes his escape and regroups with the Organisation, simply because he was able to come up with a convincing enough excuse.