The Turner Diaries, a book written by William Pierce, has been controversial. What does White indicate as the potential dangers of this book? Would you agree or disagree with White, why or why not?

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Answer 1

• For the most part, The Turner Diaries is a diatribe against minorities and Jews; it is a fictionalized account of an international white revolution.
• The danger of the work is that from a technical standpoint, it is a how-to manual for low-level terrorism.
• Using a narrative, or storytelling, format, Pierce describes the proper methods for making bombs, constructing mortars, attacking targets, and launching other acts of terrorism.
• Anyone of average intelligence who reads The Turner Diaries will come away with an elementary idea of how to become a terrorist.
• The second potential danger of The Turner Diaries is more subtle.
• The book could serve as a psychological inspiration for violence; that is, it could inspire copycat crimes.
• The frequent diatribes in and the philosophy behind the book justify murder and mayhem.
• Pierce presents the destruction of nonwhite races, minorities, and Jews as the only logical solution to social problems.
• Although Pierce himself was not religious, he used a general cosmic theology, presented in a "holy" work called The Book, to place Earl Turner on the side of an unknown deity.