scapegoat
chivo expiatorio
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
cabeza de turco,
chivo expiatorio,
pagano
example
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
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.
But the animal is the convenient 'scapegoat' , and easily blamed.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
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).
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.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
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.
Could it be there's method in the apparent madness of allowing these two to 'scapegoat' others for Government failures?
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
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.
When there is a problem, there always is a 'scapegoat' to blame.
The obvious thing to do would be to find a 'scapegoat' , so they blame it on the bugs.
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.
What makes communalism explosive is the psychology of mass-desperation that creates the ideal climate for inventing 'scapegoats' and hypothetical enemies.
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 quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming 'scapegoats' , but the prevention of future tragedies.
As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating 'scapegoats' and lamenting mistakes.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing 'scapegoaters' are up in arms.
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.
‘The focus is on 'scapegoats' and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
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.
And I said it at the beginning, I felt that these guys were getting 'scapegoated' , and I absolutely stand by that.
It was 'scapegoated' just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
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.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
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