Word: scapegoatism
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...have been a symbol of safety and accomodation. So many wanted a way out, and Petain was acceptable as an old man who couldn't harm anyone. The film's critique of him is personal--he was very much a defeatist--but it holds him as symbol, not scapegoat. The Sorrow's shame is collective...
...Hughes, however, has been pressing for a fuller investigation. "The primary issue is not General Lavelle," Hughes told the Senate, "but the command and control system which permitted-and then allowed to be concealed-the unauthorized attacks against North Viet Nam. Nor should General Lavelle be made the lone scapegoat if it turns out that others in the chain of command are also responsible...
...felt they were giving him a lot of abuse," Michael J. Lack, Cronin's law partner, said. "They weren't looking for legal advice; they were looking for a scapegoat," Lack said...
They have also found a common scapegoat for their past troubles. Lagu insists that the British, not the northern Sudanese, were originally to blame for the civil war: "They deliberately kept us backward. They should .have taken a clear-cut line in the Sudan, either divide the country or unify it. They did neither, and we paid the price. But now the Sudan is finally going to work...
...lightly, for in doing so man might take evil too lightly as well. Recent history has shown terrifyingly enough that the demonic lies barely beneath the surface, ready to catch men unawares with new and more horrible manifestations. But the Devil taken too seriously can become the ultimate scapegoat, the excuse for the world...