Word: scapegoatism
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...security risk, but we are still barred from serving our country if we feel a duty to do this through the military. This is because the military plays on homophobia and pejorative stereotypes of gays in its dehumanizing process. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members of a unit and to build esprit de corps in the rest. A scapegoat is necessary to militarism; the scapegoat is blamed for a bad situation and then killed. In short, the scapegoat is the enemy...
...daily Granma gave a stunningly detailed account, , accusing the seven men of pocketing $3.4 million for helping Colombia's infamous Medellin cartel transport six tons of cocaine to Florida. By the time Ochoa's hearing was convened two weeks later with all the haste and splash of the ongoing scapegoat trials in China, it was a foregone conclusion that this popular and much decorated military officer would be found guilty. Ochoa's court-martial began last Friday, and all that remains now is the firing squad or an eleventh-hour display of leniency on Castro's part...
...alternative opinion. It is ludicruous to expect a newly elected President to solve the world's problems in five months. Preoccupied with ethics violations, as the staff opinion acknowledges, the Congress is equally culpable for not answering every domestic policy concern. Rather than trying to find a quick scapegoat for our problems, we should attempt to build a consensus, working together with these higher goals in mind, praising each other during the successes and helping, not criticizing, during defeats...
...apparent triumph of the hard-liners reduces those goals to impossible dreams. But it does not by any means solve Deng's political problems. On the contrary, Li Peng is widely regarded as a drab mediocrity -- and a potential scapegoat for having allowed so much popular discontent to surface. Deng might | try to push him aside once order has been restored. And what price have the hard-liners had to pay to guarantee the military's allegiance? "The party must control the guns," Mao wrote. "The guns must not control the party." But in China's postwar history, the military...
...leave from the Iowa, flatly denied that he or Hartwig was a culprit. At a press conference with his wife last week, he claimed that the rumors proved that the Navy was "at a loss" to explain the tragedy. Said the sailor: "They're just looking for a scapegoat...