scapegoat
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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.
The point of this letter is not to 'scapegoat' doctors (translation: I might be sick one day).
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they 'scapegoat' the unborn children of non-national parents.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to 'scapegoat' anyone.
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.
He contends fundamentalist Christians and other conservatives 'scapegoat' gays and lesbians.
The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty 'scapegoat' through collective violence.
The question is, does it serve us to 'scapegoat' people now?
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.
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.
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.
A fourth was to attack the social problem not directly but indirectly, by blaming a particular 'scapegoat' for its emergence.
It is not a moral value to 'scapegoat' undocumented immigrants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been 'scapegoated' for the party's failure to make any political headway.
The Republicans 'scapegoated' gays to win the election.
He says that he feels he had been 'scapegoated' by the press.
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' .
However, in contrast, my argument is that we need to be cautious about where we lay blame rather than pointing the finger at easy 'scapegoats' .
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.
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 issue of marriage is not going to go away, and the Republican 'scapegoating' of our community is not going to go away,’ he argued.
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