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Title: SILICON VALLEY FIRM ‘SHOCKED’ BY FOUNDER’S COMPARISON OF THE RICH IN AMERICA TO
Post by: BlueStateSaint on January 26, 2014, 07:46:53 AM

Here's the full title, as well as a couple of paragraphs from the article on The Blaze.

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SILICON VALLEY FIRM ‘SHOCKED’ BY FOUNDER’S COMPARISON OF THE RICH IN AMERICA TO JEWS IN NAZI GERMANY

Jan. 25, 2014 8:16pm    Dave Urbanski

A top Silicon Valley venture capital firm distanced itself Saturday from the words of one of its founders that compared today’s anger at the rich in America to Nazi Germany’s singling out of Jews in the 1930s, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A letter to the editor by Tom Perkins, a venture funding pioneer and cofounder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, ran in the opinion pages of Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.

Perkins wrote, in part:

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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.”

After Perkins’ letter was met with heated criticism on Twitter and drew online news coverage, Kleiner Perkins tweeted: ”Tom Perkins has not been involved in KPCB in years. We were shocked by his views expressed today in the WSJ and do not agree.”

Sounds as if Mr. Perkins struck a nerve . . .

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/25/silicon-valley-firm-shocked-by-founders-comparison-of-the-rich-in-america-to-jews-in-nazi-germany/

Title: Re: SILICON VALLEY FIRM ‘SHOCKED’ BY FOUNDER’S COMPARISON OF THE RICH IN AMERICA TO
Post by: BlueStateSaint on January 26, 2014, 07:48:19 AM

Mods, could you transfer this to a more appropriate forum, such as GD?  Now that I think about it, it doesn't belong in this forum, IMO.