The Left's War on the Rich is just like Nazi persecution of Jews

[Redfairen]

Tom Perkins is known is a founder of one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms,  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He is not, however, a very adept historian. 

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, he suggests that progressives protesting income inequality are today's equivalent of Nazi's persecuting Jews.


 
Regarding your editorial "Censors on Campus" (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno geeks" can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a "snob" despite the millions she has spent on our city's homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?


http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/venture-capitalist-says-war-on-the-rich-is-like-nazi-germanys-war-on-the-jews/283347/

[YoungDemCA]

1. Glenn Beck: "First they came for the bankers, the insurance companies, and the hedge funds"

...and I said nothing." (paraphrased)


These fuckers have no shame.

[nyquil_man]

2. Of course, because being taxed at Reagan-era levels

is just like being herded off to the camps.

What a fucking crybaby. Maybe he should spend some of that money on a thicker skin.

[aquart]

3. Is he encouraging us to believe a Final Solution is the only way to deal with the rich?

[quinnox]

4. Oh, bullshit

Idiotic argument to the max!

[thesquanderer]

5. In one respect, a step in the right direction.

To some extent, people have hated Jews because they thought they controlled the money. At least these people DO control the money.

[hootinholler]

6. Someone seems nervous n/t

[defacto7]

7. And this is the kind of fanatical

propaganda that brought on the Kristallnacht. This man WANTS to usher in a non peaceful conflict by his dangerous rhetoric. There is a conflict already between the masses and the 1% and it is in the form of peaceful and righteous condemnation of their blissful apathy, although the blame rightfully belongs to politicians, at least 5/9ths of the SCOTUS and the disease of American stupidity.

[hunter]

8. Well, it's not the French Reign of Terror yet.

I'd suggest Perkins and his wealthy comrades read up on that.



A certain amount of socialism is a good thing.

FDR understood. He was not any kind of socialist from my perspective, but he died with his head attached to the rest of his body.

[Scootaloo]

9. Either history needs a new bad guy or pundits need more history

Twits like this are reducing the Nazis to comic book villains