WSJ Allows Former News Corp. Exec to Compare 'War' on Rich to Nazi Anti-Semitism

Nearly eight decades ago, Germans, enraged by Nazi Party propaganda, burned and destroyed Jewish shops and synagogues, killed 91 Jews and arrested 30,000 more, deporting them to concentration camps. To Thomas Perkins, a billionaire Silicon Valley investor, that sounds just like recent protests targeting San Francisco’s monied tech workers.

In a letter published by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday — provocatively headlined “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” — Perkins, a former News Corporation board member, wrote:

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.”