It is worse than people think

[chemoelectric]

I am upset about http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-perkins-wsj-letter-2014-1, because so much focus has been on the ludicrous self-pity of this scoundrel, when IMO far worse is that the Wall Street Journal condoned (by publishing it) the analogy of Jews persecuted by Nazis to an ultrawealthy elite.

Um, that bogus analogy is why the Nazis wanted

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[polydad]

I used to work for these assholes, back in the '90's. What we don't want to think about, let alone acknowledge, is that they *know* they are assholes. Being nice people ourselves, we want to think somewhere under there is a nice person too, and all we have to do is find it and encourage it.

Nope. They *glory* in being jerks, the bigger the better.

Who's the preeminant country today? China. Do you remember what China was doing about forty years ago?

Massacreing their elites. Doesn't seem to have hurt them much, has it?

And our own Wall Street assholes know perfectly well that they are just as expendable. Their whole strategy is based on being scary enough that nobody calls their bluff, because if they were in *our* position, they'd kill them without thought or hesitation.

As it happens, very few of us really want that. We want to take their *power* away, and see that it's either nullfied or used responsibly. They themselves -- ehh. Remove their money and take back what they've stolen, and give them an incentive to wish for the wellbeing of their civilization by having 'em live on the same distribution everyone else gets, and let 'em do what they feel like.

But that would mean they are *unimportant*. And their egos wouldn't be able to take that; they'd much rather have the Drama Of The Revolution. Which will probably piss people off so much they end up with deaths like Hussein's, rather than government health-care, a pension, and an apartment. But, hey, their call.

Check out http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html for some current uncensored news on the subject, if you like.

[chemoelectric]

My concern here is not with scoundrels as a group; I do not doubt the WSJ is packed with scoundrels. It is that people objecting to the scoundrels so often are noticing the ‘godwinism’ but not the IMO much worse antisemitism.

[polydad]

I'm not noticing it either. Seems to me they *are* being assholes to Jews, but only moreso than anybody else if we happen to be in the way. I think that's gneral-purpose assholery, not antisemitism.

[polydad]

Thinking about it further, I think I now understand. You're saying the WSJ is being antisemitic, not the people they're quoting.

I don't think they'd listen to it coming from us, but a sufficiently prestigious rabbi might be able to get their attention.

I stopped expecting anything I could justifiably call journalism from them decades ago; it's hard for me to concentrate on figuring out any intent they might have beyond selling newspapers.