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Tom Perkins: Billionaire venture capitalist ridiculed after writing letter comparing the treatment of rich Americans to the Holocaust Thomas Perkins, who is thought to be worth around $8bn, made the startling comparison in a letter to The Wall Street Journal Rob Williams Rob Williams is Senior Online Reporter at the Independent. Sunday 26 January 2014 A hyper-wealthy billionaire venture capitalist has faced ridicule after comparing the treatment of super-rich Americans to the Holocaust. Thomas Perkins, who is thought to be worth around $8bn, made the startling comparison in a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which he wrote of 'parallels' between the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany and what he describes as the "progressive war on the American one percent". The letter, which was published by the WSJ earlier this week, begins: "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, who was a founder member of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, continues: "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," he adds. Mr Perkins, who was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, concludes his letter by warning of a "very dangerous drift in our American thinking," before adding "Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?" Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, saw a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany in November 1938. The attacks were carried out by Sturmabteilung forces and non-Jewish civilians and were ignored by the German authorities. 91 Jews were killed and around 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. Mr Perkins, who controversially resigned from the board of Hewlett-Packard in 2006 following a row over the methods used in a crackdown on media leaks, faced widespread ridicule on social media following the publication of his letter. One Twitter user wrote: "Serious rich-dude bubble to see "treatment" of rich by progressives as parallel to Nazi treatment of Jews...". Other users described the businessman as a "rich idiot" and condemned the newspaper for printing the letter. New York Times writer Steven Greenhouse tweeted: 'As someone who lost numerous relatives to the Nazi gas chambers, I find statements like this revolting & inexplicable.' 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Milijarder Tom Perkins (66) iz Silicijske doline, koji se obogatio ulaganjem u rizični kapital, usporedio je kritiziranje najbogatijih Amerikanaca s progonom Židova u nacističkoj Njemačkoj. Njegova usporedba promptno je označena kao 'sablasna i sramotna' U pismu Wall Street Journalu, Perkins je povezao pokret Occupy s 'Kristalnom noći', zloglasnim pogromom Židova u studenom 1938. godine, piše britanski Telegraph 'Pišući iz epicentra progresivne misli, San Francisca, pozvao bih da se obrati pažnja na paralele između fašističke nacističke Njemačke i rata protiv njezina 'jednog postotka', naime njezinih Židova, s progresivnim ratom prema američkom jednom postotku, naime bogatašima', napisao je Perkins u pismu naslovljenom 'Stiže progresivna Kristalna noć?'. 'Od pokreta Occupy do demonizacije bogatih, ugrađene u svaku riječ naših lokalnih novina San Francisco Chronicle, uočavam rastuću plimu mržnje prema uspješnom jednom postotku'. Perkins spominje antipatiju u San Franciscu prema luksuznim 'Googleovim autobusima' koji prevoze djelatnike do njihovih dobro plaćenih radnih mjesta, kao i sve veći gnjev zbog porasta cijena nekretnina do koje su doveli bogati kupci koji rade u internetskim kompanijama. 'To je veoma opasno skretanje u našem američkom razmišljanju... Kristalna noć bila je nezamisliva 1930; je li njezin nasljedni 'progresivni' radikalizam nezamisliv sada?' zapitao je Perkins. Perkins, koji ima diplome s MIT-a i Harvarda, nekoć je bio suprug kraljice ljubića Danielle Steel i autor je knjige 'Sex and the Single Zillionaire'. Jahtu 'Malteški sokol' 2006. platio je 150 milijuna dolara. Korisnici Twittera ismijali su Perkinsa kao 'bogatog idiota', a Los Angeles Times ocijenio je njegovo pismo 'sablasnim, vulgarnim i sramotnim'. - Sviđa vam se članak? Preporučite ga prijateljima putem ovih servisa: Pošaljite mailom