Word: scapegoat
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...accounting profession sees itself as a scapegoat in the S&L crisis. Says J. Michael Cook, chairman of Deloitte & Touche: "The equation that an S&L failed, it had an audit, so the audit failed -- that just doesn't add up." Industry leaders complain that they are being targeted by government regulators seeking to deflect blame from their own mistakes and by investors looking for rich firms to make good their losses. "People come after the auditors because they're usually the only ones with money left standing," says Philip Chenok, president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants...
...reassuring, however, to see the reappearance of that favorite American animal, the scapegoat. Whatever Japan's reluctance to open its markets, the biggest share of the blame for our economic and social troubles rests with ourselves -- our complacency, our neglect of education, aggravated by the deterioration of the family and lack of social discipline...
Oddly, there was some sympathy for the devil. Many African Americans, including many women, thought Tyson was a scapegoat for white fears in a white town (the original jury was one-quarter black, about the percentage in Marion County, Ind.) and Washington was either gold-digging or criminally naive. If she wasn't "asking for it" by joining Tyson in his hotel bedroom, she was at least asking for trouble. Even in Indianapolis, the judgment got mixed reviews. A local TV station asked viewers whether they agreed with the verdict; 60% said...
...Zenith are moving their plants to Mexico. American companies are giving up manufacturing in this country, while Sony, Toshiba and Mitsubishi are coming here and opening up major plants. When things go wrong, we have to find some excuse, and the Japanese are becoming some sort of scapegoat...
...without virtue. His model for a solution to America's racist degradation of Black folks is right out of the fascist handbook for the degradation of the German herrenvolk. It is a neurotically twisted paradigm, appealing to the base needs of injured Black folks for revenge and for a scapegoat, and he chooses as scapegoat one of the longstanding victims of Western Civilization's fascist scapegoating impulse--Jews...