Are you claiming that just because Atari and Huttaree sound VAGUELY similar, video games are the culprit?

Perhaps you’re unaware, but Atari has nowhere near the same power or cachet it enjoyed prior to 1983.

Now why don’t you go rebury your head in the sand, hmm?

“the name “Hutaree” was made up by one of the militia leader’s sons as a joke.” I wonder if this fact coming to light will weaken the hutaree militia any. Google Chrome doesn’t recognize it so there is some hope.

How bad is it? It’s full of references to sex between black males and white females, which is a personal obsession of many white nationalists besides William Pierce. The Jews in the book are cartoon villains. In one part the White Nationalist terrorists blow up the Israeli embassy, and this wounded embassy guard stumbles out into the street and empties his uzi into a crowd of people for no reason. In one part this Jewish journalist is reporting on the nuclear attack they carry out in New York or Baltimore, and he suddenly goes into this rant and then starts speaking in Hebrew. I can understand the emotional breakdown but WHY IS HE SPEAKING IN HEBREW? Oh right, because in Pierce’s fantasy land all Jews are members of a secret brotherhood centered in Israel.

Let’s see, what else? Oh, right. The white insurgents launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and then it says that the the “white brothers” in Russia overthrew their “Jewish masters”(this book was written in the 1970s, when very few Jews were in any position of power in the USSR), and are oh so happy to join the revolution which was kicked off by the “white brethren” who just nuked a few million Russians. This mirrors the idiotic post-Soviet attitude of Western white nationalists, who insist that Hitler HAD to invade the USSR and kill 30 million mostly-Slavic Soviet citizens to save them from the Jews. You know, from Kaganovich and Ehrenburg.

And for the banal part. When Earl Turner joins the super secret “Order” that is behind the “revolution”, he recounts how they show him a book written by “the Great one”(IIRC). The references to this book make it obvious that the book is Mein Kampf; in fact earlier in the book Pierce just steals a quote from Mein Kampf(David “Pedoviking” Lane did the same thing to make his “14 Words”). But what his hilarious is the way the book is presented as holding some great esoteric secret that causes Turner to have some kind of philosophical, indeed spiritual epiphany. This is particularly funny because while Mein Kampf does have some philosophical rants, many large parts of the book consist of whining about the Hapsburg empire, mistaken naval strategy in WWI, and trivial accounts of party dealings during its early days.

So if you ever read the book and get to that part, you can imagine Earl Turner sitting alone with “the book” and suddenly snapping up as he comes to a great realization of esoteric truth contained within the pages, “My GOD! The Habsburgs WERE jerks!!! I have crossed the Rubicon!”

The Turner Diaries is bad, but also very revealing as to the way Pierce’s mind worked(and by extension those of people he inspired). In this sense it is instructive, but to be honest I find it to be hilariously, laughably bad. It makes you wish there was an equivalent to Mystery Science Theatre 3000 for literature.