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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.
Girard believed that we cannot truly escape this mimetic desire, and that any attempts to do so would simply land you playing the game of mimesis on a different level. A new desire for peace must develop in order for the violence of scapegoating to end. However, the model for this desire must somehow rise above the tendency to scapegoat. [5]
Let's break free from our discouraging history of blaming others for the problems in our nation, writes the Rev. Nils de Jesús Hernández.
The book follows immigration policy and political discourse around immigration in the U.K. from the 1960s to the 2010s, through Labour and Conservative governments. [1] The "hostile environment" policy, including the Immigration Act 2014 and Immigration Act 2016, is discussed. These laws made people without proof of legal status unable to get a ...
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats is a 1997 book by the American author Jim Goad, in which he delineates some of his views about what he sees to be the disenfranchisement of lower-class white people, and how certain aspects of American society, such as racism and sexism, cover what he sees as a deeper concern relating to class conflict.
For example, Aesop is grotesquely deformed, as was the pharmakos in some traditions; and Aesop was thrown from a cliff, as was the pharmakos in some traditions. Gregory Nagy, in Best of the Achaeans (1979), compared Aesop's pharmakos death to the "worst" of the Achaeans in the Iliad , Thersites .
The English word "devotion" derives from the Latin. Devotio may be a form of consecratio, a ritual by means of which something was consecrated to the gods. [2] The devotio has sometimes been interpreted in light of human sacrifice in ancient Rome, [3] and Walter Burkert saw it as a form of scapegoat or pharmakos ritual. [4]