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Written by William Luther Pierce, founder of massive white nationalist group National Alliance, who credited himself as [[Pen Name|Andrew Macdonald]]
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: How the book regards those not akin to the protagonists in body, mind and soul.
* [[Category Traitor]]: The base premise is that being white without being a racist is a form of extreme betrayal.
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* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: By the end of the book, there are quite a few of these.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: The US at the start of the book; Guns have just been outlawed, second amendment be damned, the government has begun behaving like a second Gestapo, and whites are finding their dominion threatened by Jews and minorities.
* [[Defictionalization]]: What this book is perhaps the most notorious for; many nationalists have killed in its name, assuming it to be a
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: Literally; the concept of "equal opportunity" is taken as evil in and of itself.
* [[Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence]]: At the end of the book, the Aryan race is finally "liberated" as the protagonists let atomic, biological and chemical bombs rain over the entire planet, exterminating about 90% of mankind.
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* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: One of the few things the the book is relatively consistent on, and the text makes it clear the crime itself, regardless who it's inflicted on, is an especially depraved act.
* [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]]: The protagonists.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The protagonist whenever he gets philosophical. On occasion, he will stop to make a reflective comment about the situation, using extremely polished dialogue as if he were a college professor dictating a doctoral thesis. Once that's done, his
* [[Straw Character]]: The book is not very consistent in its portrayals of this. Minorities are often subject to this by default, but {{spoiler|an Israeli major who tortures the protagonist is depicted as well
* [[Throwaway Country]]: The only remorse the Organization has about turning much of Asia into an uninhabitable wasteland is that it will take a long time to colonize.
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: After a certain point, everyone not on the side of the racists takes multiple levels in this.
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