scapegoat
kambing hitam
definition
verb
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.
make a scapegoat of.
noun
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
translation of 'scapegoat'
noun
sebab kesalahan,
kambing hitam,
korban
example
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
Instead of admitting our own mistakes in not providing the taxes to maintain and improve health care, we want a 'scapegoat' to take the blame away from ourselves.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
Teenagers have always been an easy 'scapegoat' to blame for wider problems, but ultimately the majority of these young people grow up into well rounded adults.
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
When people face a crisis, they often revert to an unfortunate human tendency: to protect their own while finding a 'scapegoat' to blame the problem on.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
We are the smallest company involved in the whole set-up and we feel they are looking for a 'scapegoat' - they have made some mistakes.
In any event, preparing for the worst hardly belongs in the same category as social 'scapegoating' or rushing ill-considered bills into law.
But its themes of partying while the world turns upside down, seeking 'scapegoats' to blame for times being tough, and people denying the reality of change, turn out to be as pertinent as ever.
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
Young Irish people are being 'scapegoated' as binge drinkers and should not be blamed for the national increase in alcohol consumption, the president of the National Youth Council said yesterday.
When are we going to tackle the epidemic of buck-passing and bad behaviour by grown-ups, and stop looking for syndromes and 'scapegoats' to blame where our children are concerned?
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
One thing many Americans don't know, for example, is that German Americans were 'scapegoated' during World War I, and were the victims of beatings, house burnings and other forms of violence.
But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on 'scapegoats' .
Asylum seekers should not be 'scapegoated' for our longstanding social problems.
They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as 'scapegoats' for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
The sacrifice of the guilty victim through collective violence ends the crisis and founds a new order ordained by the divine. Violence and 'scapegoating' are always present in the mythological definition of the divine itself.
The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually 'scapegoated' .
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
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