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Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals (e.g. "he did it, not me!"), individuals against groups (e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of all the tall people"), groups against individuals (e.g., "He was ...
[16] [17] The scapegoat would usually be an individual of lower society such as a criminal, slave, or poor person and was referred to as the pharmakos, katharma or peripsima. [16] [17] There is a dichotomy, however, in the individuals used as scapegoats in mythical tales and the ones used in the actual rituals.
José Clemente Orozco's painting The Demagogue. A demagogue (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə ˌ ɡ ɒ ɡ /; from Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós) 'popular leader, mob leader'; from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, populace' and ἀγωγός (agōgós) 'leading, guiding'), [1] or rabble-rouser, [2] [3] is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common ...
The subject mimics the model, and both desire the object. Subject and model thus form a rivalry which eventually leads to the scapegoat mechanism. The scapegoat mechanism has one requirement for it to be effective in restoring the peace; all participants in the removal of the scapegoat must genuinely believe that he is guilty.
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff ripped former President Trump on Friday for his remarks at an event raising awareness for combating antisemitism in which the GOP nominee suggested Jewish people ...
Or consider any of a long list of examples. The riots of Jan. 6 failed to achieve their objective of overturning the 2020 election. The attacks of 9/11 failed to drive the U.S. out of the Middle East.
More recently, both Daniel Ogden, The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece (1997) and Todd Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero (2006) examine poet pharmakoi. Compton surveys important poets who were exiled, executed or suffered unjust trials, either in history, legend or Greek or Indo-European myth.
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats is a 2019 book by the British academic Maya Goodfellow about the immigration policy of the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards, including the "hostile environment" policy of the 2010s. Goodfellow argues against the policy and in favour of increased rights for migrants.