Word: scapegoatism
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...critics are arguing that he's not the only problem. Whether or not he's guilty of criminal wrongdoing, they say, he was abetted by a Vivendi board that didn't do its job and by French regulators who turned a blind eye. "He's become the scapegoat of everyone who played a role," says Colette Neuville, a leading shareholder activist who frequently sparred with Messier while he was running Vivendi. "Nobody tried to hold up a stop sign in front of Messier. And what's worrying is that if another Messier were to come around today...
...become the scapegoat of everyone who played a role [in Vivendi's near bankruptcy...
...reforms, by a 12-member jury; in Arlon, Belgium. Paroled after serving time for rape in the '80s, Dutroux was found guilty of imprisoning six young girls in an underground chamber, murdering two of them and killing an accomplice. Dutroux, who faces life in prison, claimed to be the scapegoat for a pedophile ring with ties to the rich and powerful but failed to convince the jury...
...Kafie said he was an easy scapegoat for the war, since after his blocking group transferred to Kirkland in fall 2003, many others followed suit...
...furor afterwards, expressed dismay at the statements - but several were more horrified that he had gone public, not at the opinions themselves. Cosby's comments did not contain any new arguments. As far back as 1942, the writer Zora Neale Hurston lamented the attacks of those who would scapegoat the black underclass: "My people! My people! From the earliest rocking of my cradle days, I have heard this cry go up from Negro lips. It is forced outward by pity, scorn and hopeless resignation. It is called forth by the observations of one class of Negro on the doings...