Venture Capitalist Compares Liberal Fight Against Gross Inequality To Kristallnacht

[DonViejo]

DANIEL STRAUSS – JANUARY 25, 2014, 11:44 AM EST

Venture capitalist Tom Perkins compared liberals' push to reduce inequality in the United States to Nazi Germany's war on Jews. In a letter to the editor published in The Wall Street Journal Perkins, a founding member of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, asks whether a "progressive Kristallnacht" is coming. Perkins's letter is in response to an editorial on speech codes at American colleges.

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Read the full letter to the editor below:

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?

Tom Perkins

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-perkins-liberal-war-one-percent-kristallnacht

[ck4829]

1. Wasn't Perkins married to Steele at one point? Funny he doesn't mention that.

If he said 'my ex-wife is being called a snob', that would be one thing. But no, he just calls her a celebrity who is under attack by progressives who are calling her a 'snob', attacks I can't find, except from C.W. Nevius. Hmm.

[workinclasszero]

2. "Progressive Kristallnacht"??

FU lapdog for the 1%!

Now "French Revolution" might be more accurate...unless the 1%ers wake up and undo some of the massive damage they have done to the 99% since Rayguns started the assault on the working class many years ago.

Yeah that will happen lol

[kairos12]

3. I agree. Maybe we can borrow the National Razor from the French.

[sakabatou]

4. Where's my clue-by-four?

This guy obviously has no idea what Kristallnacht was.