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).
example
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
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.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
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 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.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
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.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
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 implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
That is why we will carry on campaigning against the warmongers, privatisers and 'scapegoaters' .
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
Elsewhere teaching and public sector unions, along with aid agencies, charities and student groups, have been prominent in challenging the 'scapegoating' of refugees and their children.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
The media, modernity, Americanism, and a permissive ‘therapeutic’ culture can be ritually 'scapegoated' .
Like the dogs, the 'scapegoats' were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
Jesus never 'scapegoated' people who had less power than the majority and never endorsed the human tendency to draw distinctions between in and out groups.
The media want to show young people as being useless ( 'scapegoatism' at its very worst).
‘The issue of marriage is not going to go away, and the Republican 'scapegoating' of our community is not going to go away,’ he argued.
Both dogs and 'scapegoats' will be shown to be central in many of the purificatory rituals of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
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