Word: scapegoatism
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Maybe it wasn't really so lonely at night in the woods at the edge of the Scapegoat Wilderness, where the trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology and progress and people would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, hundreds of feet high, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know...
However, the Harvard players resisted the temptation to make a scapegoat of the weather...
...soliciting of campaign funds from the Cali kingpins; two weeks later, he found himself in detention, under investigation by the Prosecutor General's office. Though Samper repeatedly declared his belief in Botero's innocence, Botero came to suspect that the President was planning to make him the scapegoat in the scandal. He reached the breaking point on Jan. 21, when Samper failed to appear for a scheduled dinner at the barracks, sending in his place Interior Minister Horacio Serpa. Botero became so angry that he threw a glass across the room. "I told Serpa," he said later, "that the situation...
...SCAPEGOAT OF THE YEAR: Gangsta rap. Runner-up: Immigrants, legal...
...many more weapons available. They can appeal to the politics of hate, trumpeting white supremacy under the guise of states' rights. Reagan proclaimed this message in his 1980 campaign in the same Mississippi county where the famous civil rights workers Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman were murdered. Republicans can also scapegoat the poor. "Welfare queen" rhetoric now seems tame. Republican congressional representatives have started referring to welfare recipients as "wolves" and "crocodiles...