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karmicdragonflyIs this the new Mein Kampf?
I knew that white nationalists read fantasy novels about the success of their cause, but I had never really looked into the novels. Just now, I read the Wiki article on one of the big ones, a book written in 1978 called The Turner Diaries.
What a bunch of fantastical nonsense - amazing that people would fall for this. It's just the same sort of stuff that Hitler promoted (or the "Great One" as the white nationalists call him 🙄💩). Same old made up definitions of race, same old process of blaming the system and other groups for your own problems.
You know I like dystopian fiction, but of course this book will NOT be on my reading list. It seems to be written as if the current world is out to get white people, and then plays out the story as if non-whites, gays, Jews, liberals, "race traitors", etc. will all be hunted down and killed. I mean, that idea makes no sense even for fantasy. A group (white people, as defined by white supremacists) make up about 12% of the total world population -- how could a small number of people actually kill everyone else? I could understand if the story line was about continual war and about disruption of current governments as we know them, but actually eliminating all other human beings is not even in the realm of possibility.
Having said all that, I know how much damage the German Nazi movement did in World War II. So I'm not discounting the danger of these ideas. I was just surprised at how silly the premise of this novel is.
I knew that white nationalists read fantasy novels about the success of their cause, but I had never really looked into the novels. Just now, I read the Wiki article on one of the big ones, a book written in 1978 called The Turner Diaries.
What a bunch of fantastical nonsense - amazing that people would fall for this. It's just the same sort of stuff that Hitler promoted (or the "Great One" as the white nationalists call him 🙄💩). Same old made up definitions of race, same old process of blaming the system and other groups for your own problems.
You know I like dystopian fiction, but of course this book will NOT be on my reading list. It seems to be written as if the current world is out to get white people, and then plays out the story as if non-whites, gays, Jews, liberals, "race traitors", etc. will all be hunted down and killed. I mean, that idea makes no sense even for fantasy. A group (white people, as defined by white supremacists) make up about 12% of the total world population -- how could a small number of people actually kill everyone else? I could understand if the story line was about continual war and about disruption of current governments as we know them, but actually eliminating all other human beings is not even in the realm of possibility.
Having said all that, I know how much damage the German Nazi movement did in World War II. So I'm not discounting the danger of these ideas. I was just surprised at how silly the premise of this novel is.