Word: scapegoatism
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...pivotal question is whether the appeal of the Nation of Islam -- and of Farrakhan -- is separable from his invective of hate. Leaders throughout history have found it is often easier to succumb to demagoguery, to define a single scapegoat and offer a single solution to life's ills, especially when proposing self-restraint and sacrifice. Would young people choose the hard way of Islam without the zealotry of separatism and resentment? Could Farrakhan fill the seats of big-city convention centers if he stopped offering the allure of the outrageous, the unpredictable, the unspeakable spoken out loud? Perhaps the answer...
Walsh has insisted since his indictment that he is innocent. In a phone interview last week, he said the case involved "Dime getting caught with their pants down, trying to find a scapegoat...
...hardly uncommon. Many parents look for any possible scapegoat for their children's behavior--ignoring their own culpability. And in the search to lay blame, television is an easy target...
Parents should lay the foundation upon which children can base judgments of right and wrong. Then television wouldn't be such a convenient scapegoat. Television will have less of the influence that parents like to say it does. And it can return to being a medium of entertainment as well as a form of education...
...years, comes across to Cubans as an attempt to starve them into bringing Castro down. As the rigors of the "special period" worsen, Fidel has appealed to Cuba's fierce nationalism and its image of itself as a David fighting Goliath. He has made Uncle Sam the scapegoat for the country's economic disaster. Sophisticated citizens may not buy the argument, but at a visceral level it has helped reinforce Cubans' siege mentality. Congress's decision last year to toughen the embargo by barring foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with the island embitters and puzzles many. "You deal...