wsj | 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?
San Francisco
Mr. Perkins is a founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
