Wall Street Journal defends Nazi comparison

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Perhaps they rich fear a popular uprising simply because they are aware that their greed is immoral.

These parasites are both immoral and deadly:

• Tom “Persecuted” Perkins partnered with Eugene Kleiner who started Fairchild Semiconductor which has created massive amounts of pollution issues that they thrust upon the rest of society.

Fairchild Semiconductor has leaked tens of thousands of gallons of toxic solvents into the ground which residents and even state officials strongly suspect caused a high rate of birth defects in the area.

When is “persecuted” Perkins and his good buddy Eugene Kleiner going to dip into their vast wealth to take care of all those people growing up with birth defects? Nah, just let the rest of society deal with it. Also, why put in pollution controls and cut into vast profits to do that when you can just be a bum who has others suffer the consequences?

Oh, and they’ve got a superfund pollution site:

Guess who mostly pays for superfund sites? For the most part, everyone except the billionaires. Yep, society does in many more ways than one. The vast wealthy sure as hell never live anywhere near superfund sites, that’s for sure. That’s for the “others” to do.

Just pay some fines down the road and keep being a megalomaniac, right?

• Tom “Persecuted” Perkins seeded Genentech. Once again, they sure don’t want to cut into those profits they “earned” by not cutting corners.

Genentech overlooked 80,000 adverse reaction complaints including 15,000 tied to deaths.

Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-roche-europe-idUSBRE85K1NH20120621?

There’s many more examples for Tom Perkins if people bother to look…

Other things of note:

Disparities in the Impact of Pollution on the Poor:
http://www.stateoftheair.org/2013/health-risks/health-risks-disparities.html

Pollution disproportionately affects the poor:

EPA: Renew ‘polluters pay’ tax to fund cleanups

Low-Income, Minority Communities Disproportionately Exposed To Toxic Air Pollutants, Study Finds: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/148257.php

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So Perkins fears an uprising against the 1% and calls everyone else Hitler. Instant backlash.

I guess he does not get the irony of the self-fulfilling-prophecy.

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Ha! This reminds me of people defending bigots who say “stop being intolerant of intolerance, you hypocrite!” And they always have such a smug look on their face afterwards.

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I don’t think people understand the point Mr. Perkins was trying to make. The richest 85 people have the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. From his point of view, a super-rich person’s life is worth about as much as that of 40 million poors. This means that if a super-rich person were to die, it would be the equivalent of about three Holocausts. So logically, causing a super-rich person stress is the equivalent of one Kristallnacht. Math.

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You are aware that the Fascists were connected to Mussolini, not Hitler, right?

You can’t even get your false equivalences straight.

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Exactly. Poor people vote for policies that benefit Rich people, thinking that if they were Rich, they’d be nice to Poor people. Rich people don’t usually see Poor people ‘as’ people, not like them, not really, so they don’t feel like they need to be nice to them.

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The best insulting ridicule of this douchebag was on This Week in Google yesterday. Leo Laporte can lambast like few others:

Click here, because the auto-embed doesn’t work with specific video cue times.

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It is quite small, indeed.

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Liberals were in power? Shit, I missed it! Will somebody give me a heads up next time?

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