scapegoat

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• Growing up in the nineties, I saw California governor Pete Wilson attack immigrants with rhetoric that depicted them as scapegoats for America’s social and economic problems and with public policies like the infamous Proposition 187.

• A resurgence or continuation of the pandemic may also result in leaders seeking to distract their people the old fashioned way, by finding scapegoats and through nationalism.

• After Valencia left, she worried that the city’s response to Congress over facial recognition two years prior would come back to haunt her — and she feared becoming the scapegoat.

• They’ve been a frequent scapegoat during economic woes and disease outbreaks, and in wartime propaganda.

• The combination of affective polarization, racism, inequality, isolation and mistrust has radicalized a meaningful minority of the nation, making it easy to find scapegoats and boogeymen.

• They are vouching for Shadman, saying he is a scapegoat of a shoddy investigation.

• Smith, the current police chief, called Lee a “scapegoat” who was “thrown to the wolves” to satisfy political critics.

• And, as in countless other countries (Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria), LGBT people are a convenient scapegoat.

• Contending that he was being used as a scapegoat, Palmer asked for a trade.

• Instead, as the Democratic party proliferates a “war on women,” they choose Akin as the sole scapegoat.

• He felt himself "accursed by all," the "scapegoat on whom all the faults of Israel will be heaped with a curse."