scapegoat
ਦਾ ਬੱਕਰਾ
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
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
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.
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.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
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.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
For me, my perspective is this: it's easy to scapegoat or to try to 'scapegoat' one person or another.
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.
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.
Labor and Liberal politicians both gain, along with capitalism's ruling class, when workers blame 'scapegoats' for a life of insecurity and want, rather than the government or system.
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.
I think there's been a great deal of ignorance and a lot of 'scapegoating' and a lot of fear about the existence of same-sex, loving relationships.
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating 'scapegoats' and lamenting mistakes.
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.
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.
I'm sick of being 'scapegoated' by people who don't know what they're talking about.
Like the dogs, the 'scapegoats' were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
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.
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.
Leaders will deny, blame, seek 'scapegoats' , and retreat to their offices.
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