Tech billionaire compares self to Jews under the Nazis, fears pogrom

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-onepercenter-20140125,0,2424935.story



Human remains found after liberation at Dachau, where Jews were sent after Kristallnacht. Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Perkins compares his situation to this.

Tech billionaire compares self to Jews under the Nazis, fears pogrom
By Michael Hiltzik
January 25, 2014, 11:18 a.m.

You may have thought that the entitlement culture among the high-tech elite was getting out of hand before, but it will be a long time before anything tops the ghastly outburst from venture capitalist Thomas Perkins appearing in Friday's Wall Street Journal.

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"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.'"

He complains about negative coverage about the rich in his hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, and continues:

"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."