“Tom Perkins, the founder of one of Silicon valley’s most venerable venture capitalist funds, has again suggested that people who criticize the wealth inequality between those working in the tech industry and those who don’t are akin to Nazis. In an email to Bloomberg published today, he wrote that critics of gentrification and the generously well-funded tech startups that drive it are just like German fascists during the early 20th Century: “In the Nazi area it was racial demonization, now it is class demonization.” Perkins is one of the fabulously wealthy founders of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-perkins-nazi-email-2014-1#ixzz2rf6l7l5Q

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