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Response to a reader’s question on “subsidizing communism” –

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

In last week’s issue of Jefferson Review, I criticized the million dollar taxpayer subsidy (from the “Bucks for Brains” program) to create an endowed chair at the University of Louisville on race, class, gender, etc., saying that it was subsidizing communism.  A reader asked why I considered this endowed chair, which would be teaching “tolerance”, to be teaching communism.  The following is my response:

To answer your question, the whole focus on race, class, gender and sexuality is intended to teach communism as opposed to individuality.  Grouping people by race, class, gender, and sexuality is part of the group-based (communal, socialist, communist) world, not part of a world that respects each person as an individual.  And, by the way, these folks are the least tolerant among us, having no respect for individuals who don’t agree with them, and always wanting to use force to get everyone to do things their way.  For example, they want force you to hire gays and lesbians --- or else!  Not exactly the epitome of tolerance.  In fact, they mirror the intolerance of the old Jim Crow South, in which government policy also treated people based on their racial group rather than respecting them as individuals. 

The whole idea of putting people into groups and then considering those groups to be oppressed and in need of rescue from the government is a way of wiping out our traditional respect for the individual and shifting power from the individual to the state.  The ironic part is that, once the government gets all that power, it proceeds to oppress people much more than they were ever oppressed before.

Another ironic aspect of this episode is that the “Bucks for Brains” money was supposed to be used to attract scientists and engineers who would do research that would be the catalyst for business growth in the area.  Instead, this million dollars of the “Bucks for Brains” money is going to endow a chair that will rail against “evil business” and “evil profits”, creating an environment that will repel and snuff out business growth.  We would certainly be better off if that tax money were left in the taxpayers’ pockets rather than being used to promote anti-individualist, anti-business, and anti-private property attitudes and policies.

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