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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTom Perkins compared push to reduce inequality in the U S Nazi Germany's war on Jews.
"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," Perkins wrote in the letter to the editor.
Perkins cites outrage over real-estate prices as an example of overblown liberal outrage.
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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
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Tom Perkins compared push to reduce inequality in the U S Nazi Germany's war on Jews. (Original Post)
ashling
Jan 2014
OP
aer people like him even aware that fundamental to Nazism was crushing the unions, the socialist
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2014
#6
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)1. Response to Perkins' WSJ letter to the editor:
defacto7
(13,485 posts)2. also here...
surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)3. If he really thinks the wealthy are in such danger ...
... he should be comparing the current situation to the French Revolution, not Nazi Germany. Does he not know his history?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,570 posts)4. A good commentary on the trivialization of "Nazi" references
in my city's newspaper yesterday, by a Minnesota state legislator, who takes exception to some similarly stupid comments by local politicians:
Monday, Jan. 27, marks the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Auschwitz survivors and others, including the president of Poland, will gather at the site for a somber ceremony of prayer and commemoration in honor of more than 1 million people who were murdered there.
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For Holocaust survivors and their descendants, these milestone historical dates are especially poignant and personal. My grandparents, on both sides, were killed by the Nazis. My fathers mother, along with nearly half a million Hungarian Jews, perished at Auschwitz.
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As the 2014 election season kicks off ... and with another legislative session around the corner, I have a simple request of candidates for public office, elected and appointed leaders at all levels of government, the media, and the public at large:
Lets try to get through a legislative session and an election season without equating an opponent or an issue to Nazi Germany. Our civic discourse will be healthier for it, and we can better honor and respect the memory of those lost in the Holocaust.
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For Holocaust survivors and their descendants, these milestone historical dates are especially poignant and personal. My grandparents, on both sides, were killed by the Nazis. My fathers mother, along with nearly half a million Hungarian Jews, perished at Auschwitz.
....
As the 2014 election season kicks off ... and with another legislative session around the corner, I have a simple request of candidates for public office, elected and appointed leaders at all levels of government, the media, and the public at large:
Lets try to get through a legislative session and an election season without equating an opponent or an issue to Nazi Germany. Our civic discourse will be healthier for it, and we can better honor and respect the memory of those lost in the Holocaust.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/241746391.html
Gothmog
(144,869 posts)5. This man runs a vulture fund
He is a jerk
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)6. aer people like him even aware that fundamental to Nazism was crushing the unions, the socialist
and the communists?
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)7. No, they are not. nt
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)8. He is getting roasted on social media.
The right cannot get away from him fast enough. However, they are so attached to the 1% that it follows them no matter where they go.