Word: scapegoatism
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...help us to proceed with the pressing business that is before it,” the chair said. Another professor said that faculty believe the criticism of Kirby may be misdirected. “Some professors, even some who want Kirby to go, have said he is a scapegoat for the more fundamental problem, which is Summers,” the faculty member said.Yesterday evening, Director of Communications for FAS Robert Mitchell referred inquiries about the dean to the President’s Office. In a brief interview last night, the president’s spokesman expressed Summers?...
...Minister Rafiq Hariri. Syrian authorities swiftly declared Kenaan's death a suicide. Still, speculation swept Damascus that Kenaan may have killed himself because he feared that his government was setting him up in the murder of Hariri, with whom he had been on good terms; that he was a scapegoat sacrificed to address possible accusations against Syria in the report; or that he was killed, under the convenient cloak of the U.N. probe, to eliminate a rival to President Bashar Assad. The last theory, says Syria watcher and history professor Joshua Landis, "is the conclusion everyone is jumping...
...failures, Brown has in some ways been a scapegoat for the incompetence of others. After all, as head of FEMA, Brown is just a second-tier manager in the nation's second largest Cabinet agency, the sprawling Department of Homeland Security. From the moment he declared Katrina "an incident of national significance"--a full 36 hours after landfall--the man in charge of the federal response was Brown's boss, DHS Secretary Chertoff...
...women. These are evils that Muslims need to face if they are to speak with greater credibility against the injustices that have caused much distress to Muslims around the world and, in particular, in the Middle East. Aziz Tharani Cardiff, Wales It is very easy to make religion the scapegoat for all the ills in society. But blaming religion does not resolve conflicts. Al-Qaeda is not against the American or European way of life. It is against the constant political and economic intrusions by the West into the Middle East. It wants American troops out of Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan...
...this climate, I found myself playing a role too: scapegoat. Admittedly, my Africa garb, comprised of white linens and a Panama hat, made me an obvious target, but the gall of my inquisitors! After half an hour spent lingering about an old slave fort, one African-American who’d been eyeing me crept towards me and asked, “Don’t you feel guilty...