Facebook desperately needed a scapegoat, and Alex was their scapegoat.
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"Right now, they're upset and they need a scapegoat, and I'm the scapegoat," Williams said.
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"German rap is a scapegoat, because youth culture is always a scapegoat," Ms. Funk, who directed "The Dark Side of German Rap," said.
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But the series also twins that idea with the idea of blame, the idea of finding a scapegoat and sometimes even a completely justifiable scapegoat.
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It is easier to scapegoat foreigners, minorities, people of different religious beliefs, than it is to scapegoat corporations, or capitalism, or Wall Street, which are abstract concepts.
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The imagined enemy -- the scapegoat -- is then dehumanized.
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" McCarthy said the Fed sometimes becomes the "national scapegoat.
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It's the world's scapegoat when it comes to climate change.
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The bottom line: It's China's turn in the scapegoat spotlight.
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His lawyer, Benedict Kuehne, said he was made a scapegoat.
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Shor denied wrongdoing and said he was made a scapegoat.
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In response, Reid has turned to a recognizable scapegoat: hackers.
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KALAMAZOO SHOOTING SUSPECT Uber unbelievable: Jason Dalton has his scapegoat.
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If the team fails, Fomenko will be the natural scapegoat.
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The turmoil may have spurred a search for a scapegoat.
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Plus a scapegoat might be useful if the economy falters.
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They scapegoat refugees and this is leading to political disaster.
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Cimerman said refugees were a useful scapegoat for the government.
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It just feels like this is too easy a scapegoat.
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Blame 'Frank' We could all use a scapegoat these days.
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Some contracts even rule out infectious diseases as a scapegoat.
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Our readers say yes, it depends and don't "scapegoat" Facebook.
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But migrants can rally to defeat policies that scapegoat them.
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He's also perpetually Han's scapegoat whenever the Millennium Falcon breaks.
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Brussels has graduated from convenient scapegoat to the IMF's bogeyman enforcer.
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In the process, he has made Mexico into the perfect scapegoat.
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If you're looking for a scapegoat, you've got a likely candidate.
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One officer said he believed that Brant had been a scapegoat.
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On July 29th Mr Trump invoked his favourite scapegoat once again.
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"Now, we're competition, and easy to scapegoat when something goes wrong."
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This has not prevented Trump's statement from resurrecting this tired scapegoat.
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Something is wrong and now they need a diversion, a scapegoat.
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VICE: Is mental health being used as a scapegoat for terrorism?
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Kogan maintains he's being made a scapegoat for Facebook's own missteps.
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Kevin Love has spent the last three seasons as a scapegoat.
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And every politician knows a good scapegoat when they see one.
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In the process, she's become both a punchline and a scapegoat.
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Maybe he would not be the scapegoat that he is now.
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Quinn delivers the goods, and Gary punishes her via scapegoat Rachel.
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"In other words, I am to be the scapegoat," Yuliya says.
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The coach's relative powerlessness makes coaches easy to dismiss and scapegoat.
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Rather than scapegoat immigrants, he took risks to pass immigration reform.
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Mr. Weinstein accused Mr. Horowitz of using him as a scapegoat.
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After the hearing, he told reporters his client was a scapegoat.
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Additionally, Alibaba suggests that it has been made into a scapegoat.
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Post-Hollande France is looking for scapegoat, not just a president.
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And the President might also have gone looking for a scapegoat.
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They used Taiwan as a scapegoat to divert their domestic discontent.
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Seldom has a scapegoat grazed in such a profusion of pastures.
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His supporters - and even some opponents - say Hizbullah is a scapegoat.
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People feel betrayed by the state, and guess who their scapegoat is?
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Is Maja an innocent scapegoat, or is she a cold-blooded murderer?
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"Soon-Yi was [Mia's] most frequent scapegoat," Moses writes of his childhood.
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It's trendy to make social media the scapegoat for all millennial ills.
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They're looking for someone to blame, and immigrants are an easy scapegoat.
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Go deeper: The Kirstjen Nielsen backstory Kirstjen Nielsen becomes Trump's immigration scapegoat
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Nature and God themselves have conspired to make him an eternal scapegoat.
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And that Europe is still taken as a scapegoat for many things.
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Yet there is something else here too, something more than scapegoat-ism.
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His supporters say he is a scapegoat for the Greek debt crisis.
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These countries scapegoat darker people their nation's social ills and economic struggles.
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CIA head Richard Helms refused to let the agency be a scapegoat.
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It seems that Bolognese is the scapegoat of the Italian sauce pantheon.
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He, like most coaches sooner or later, has become a battered scapegoat.
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The scapegoat, as defined in the Book of Leviticus, is a propitiation.
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We were not going to let Phil go down as a scapegoat.
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Naturally, George Soros, perennial scapegoat for the far right, is also involved.
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Gooi Soon Seng, Siti Aisyah's lawyer, said his client was "a scapegoat".
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With three to four million Romanians working abroad, you need a scapegoat.
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There's also a possibility that his lawyer could become a useful scapegoat.
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Both in the 1970s and 1940s, Latinos were portrayed as a scapegoat.
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Postmodernism has been a favorite scapegoat for our ills for decades now.
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The point here is not to scapegoat teachers or doctors and nurses.
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Hitler hated the Jews and made them the scapegoat for his own shortcomings.
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It is tempting to speculate that … Soutine's "whirling fowl" is a psychological scapegoat.
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So, is Foresea the poster boy of China's insurance industry, or its scapegoat?
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He became the all-too-easy scapegoat for the Falcons' late-season misfortunes.
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Second, you have a much more available scapegoat in human biology and evolution.
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The big question now has to be who wants to be the scapegoat.
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The Clinton campaign has, however, long tried to scapegoat Colin Powell for this.
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The hacked emails also show Neera Tanden, a longtime loyalist, wanted a scapegoat.
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He feels like everyone has made him a scapegoat, and it's not fair.
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HAS HE BEEN MADE A SCAPEGOAT, EVEN THOUGH HE MADE THIS DECISION HIMSELF?
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As a consequence, they want to make themselves removed from the scapegoat role.
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China is being made a scapegoat for rising inequality in the United States.
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A scapegoat can also be something simple and familiar for the unadventurous diner.
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That scapegoat is free trade agreements of which NAFTA is the poster child.
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It also says it is a scapegoat given tension between Washington and Moscow.
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That gives him one less scapegoat to accuse for whatever failures he makes.
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Trump has just suffered a stinging legislative defeat, and Trump loves a scapegoat.
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He worked to scapegoat governors and the media for not handling it properly.
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San Diego's scapegoat could easily be Philip Rivers, who didn't play particularly well.
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He views the media as a reliable scapegoat that effectively rallies his base.
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Tech, with its pseudo-utopian airs and surveillance-profiteering, is a tempting scapegoat.
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But Muslims are despised more as a scapegoat, a vessel for society's worries.
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Khosrowshahi acknowledges that traffic is a problem, but Uber shouldn't be a scapegoat.
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The NRA likewise opts to scapegoat some "insane" bogeyman during times like these.
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"The fact is, the religion issue is kind of a scapegoat," he said.
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"The times don't add up, but drugs are a convenient scapegoat," he said.
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There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle — the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
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"Some politicians find it convenient to scapegoat immigrants rather than welcoming them," he said.
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Actually, beating the scapegoat might more accurately be called the whirling of the fowl.
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She finally has a scapegoat for why she can't commit to a good man.
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The EU became a convenient scapegoat for Britain's ills, particularly in the tabloid press.
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"Trump is using MS-13 as a scapegoat for his immigration policy," Slutsky said.
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Sanders found a scapegoat Then there's the other end of the political spectrum: Sen.
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The problem is not teachers' unions (the favorite scapegoat of the rich and powerful).
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"You had some forces that made a scapegoat out of him," Mr. Brown said.
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The country became a scapegoat for investors looking to cut their emerging market exposure.
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Price may have been the biggest offender, but he's also something of a scapegoat.
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Amazon then is a convenient scapegoat for the larger bipartisan ire against digital capitalism.
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Franz Klintsevich described Flynn as a scapegoat, according to state news outlet Ria Novosti.
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Regardless, the FBI has become an expedient political scapegoat to distract from the truth.
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In this story, the EU becomes a scapegoat for the sins of domestic politics.
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His lawyer argued that the government was making him a scapegoat for the disaster.
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But Trump has refused to accept this balanced approach, instead opting to scapegoat immigrants.
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Throughout their life together, she was his interlocutor, editor, domestic ballast, and emotional scapegoat.
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If the purpose however is to scapegoat Mr. Weinstein, he will vigorously defend himself.
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But Duque has refused to scapegoat the migrants or turn his back on them.
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Suddenly Europe was America's scapegoat, while China was busy sending medical aid to Italy.
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The easy way out has been to blame Netflix — they have been the scapegoat.
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If the purpose, however, is to scapegoat Mr. Weinstein, he will vigorously defend himself.
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Breakingviews President Trump's threats of a trade war are becoming a useful corporate scapegoat.
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Mr. Lee's supporters say he has been made a scapegoat for politically motivated prosecutors.
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Could it be everybody's favorite scapegoat — the European Union and its faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats?
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McQueary "should not have been a scapegoat," Strokoff said during closing arguments Thursday morning.
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The only thing that changed is that they've become the "new" scapegoat of politics.
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He makes a perfect scapegoat, and Fred's already lined up a replacement for him.
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Heisler said Orban was using Soros as a scapegoat and that carried serious risks.
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He turned to an old scapegoat — "political correctness" — to lament his favored contender's loss.
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There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle — the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful and backward-looking people.
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Free trade has been blamed, defamed, and mostly made the scapegoat for America's economic woes.
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Iran said the video proved nothing and that it was being made into a scapegoat.
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Faceless hackers no longer seem a viable scapegoat for corporations whose security is found wanting.
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At the same time, that still raises questions about automated tech's role as a scapegoat.
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There will also be those ready to scapegoat these communities for financial and political gain.
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We're told he felt like a scapegoat and was cut loose purely for PR reasons.
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Most seem content to scapegoat Syrian refugees, instead of taking responsibility for their own failures. ■
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You don't get to the real issues as to why people are hurting, you scapegoat.
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They are suing the school, claiming it played favorites and made their daughter the "scapegoat."
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The system seems to be designed to look tough but punish only the occasional scapegoat.
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And the government will have to find another scapegoat for the country's poor economic performance.
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Well, make, make Mexican immigration the scapegoat for that, I understand why there's that sentiment.
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Nazi propaganda used Jews as a convenient scapegoat for the economic crises of the 1930s.
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Iran said the video proved nothing and that Tehran was being made into a scapegoat.
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The reasons why start with the simple scapegoat logic of one standing in for many.
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"The immigrant, the minority, the transgender, anyone not like me became a scapegoat," Biden said.
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But it's starting to look like she is becoming a scapegoat for the Porter scandal.
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Similar restrictions would grant Venezuela the same narrative, providing a scapegoat for their homegrown catastrophe.
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"Bangladesh Bank should stop making RCBC its scapegoat," the Philippine bank said in a statement.
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Watch the video to hear what the hosts of "Restaurant Startup " think about scapegoat dishes.
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"We shouldn't turn Oxfam into a scapegoat," Lespinasse told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone.
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She also claimed Flynn could be a "scapegoat" for the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.
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Fear drives people to react—pull the trigger, scapegoat entire communities, describe the wrong suspect.
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It seems almost every day the President chooses a new group to scapegoat and attack.
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It's O.K. to be the scapegoat of students who didn't start earlier, and I didn't.
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A campaign to scapegoat Ryan and other Republican Party leaders offers the perfect exit strategy.
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"This rookie cop is not going to be the scapegoat for what happened," he said.
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It is a self-serving ploy for Beijing to use the NED as a scapegoat.
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So we can't have open borders, but neither should we vilify immigrants and scapegoat them.
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These farcical corruption investigations are designed to scapegoat lower ranking members and have grown exponentially.
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It's the fault of the politicians of European states who use Europe as a scapegoat.
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The European Union was little more than a convenient scapegoat for a host of anxieties.
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Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday the U.S. should not make Pakistan a "scapegoat" regarding Afghanistan.
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"China absolutely refuses to be the scapegoat and excuse for unilateralism and protectionism," he said.
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"He tragically became a scapegoat," Malone wrote in an email upon hearing of Law's death.
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The innocuous painting was simply a ruse to scapegoat the artist for being a Muslim.
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It's not okay for you to walk all over me and use me as your scapegoat.
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A campaign to scapegoat the establishment press for Trump's electoral defeat makes the perfect exit strategy.
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In the words of Zborowski and Herzog, the shtetl would have been busy beating the scapegoat.
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The scapegoat in Facebook's ongoing data privacy scandal is firing back at the social media giant.
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Inside the world of YouTube partisans, Mr. Maza's feud with Mr. Crowder made him a scapegoat.
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The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
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Shoya becomes the class scapegoat, his peers ostracize him, and he isolates himself out of guilt.
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Whether Officer Goodson is a scapegoat or a culprit is for the remaining trials to decide.
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Shen applauded the moves, relieved that index futures were no longer the scapegoat for market slumps.
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Before the scapegoat planet goes direct next week, consider the benefits of a much-needed reset.
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If you can make them angry enough, they can scapegoat those who don't look like them.
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Maybe he doesn't deserve to be the scapegoat for the GOP's disconnect with so many voters.
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His supporters said Tanoh had been made a scapegoat for governance matters that predated his tenure.
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The hairstyle quickly became a popular scapegoat for Great Britain's failure to medal in the event.
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For her rivals, she also makes a convenient scapegoat for the failings of the Withdrawal Agreement.
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The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful backward-looking people.
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He has made Gawker into a scapegoat for the world he himself is helping to create.
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Recognize the true problem here, rather than using someone else as a scapegoat & continuing the cycle.
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It is so easy in this election year to scapegoat them, the world's most voiceless people.
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Ostensibly, the chief prosecutor is seeking to give the Russian people a scapegoat for the tragedy.
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Will that stop the president from using the Fed as a scapegoat if a recession occurs?
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When she refused to break the law, Trump made her the scapegoat for his failed policies.
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For months, Russia's role in the 2016 election has rankled Democrats searching for a scapegoat. Rep.
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Mr. Papaconstantinou also relates how he came to be seen as a scapegoat for Greece's ills.
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The university fell into Orban's crosshairs because Soros has become a major scapegoat in populist mythology.
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But in the eyes Donald Trump, the scandal presents an opportunity to vilify a favored scapegoat.
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But, despite all prevailing evidence to the contrary, mental illness is still the scapegoat of choice.
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There was no villain here, nobody to blame, no need for a scapegoat or an effigy.
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In a letter to the county, Corizon said it had been made a "scapegoat" for problems.
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The judge barred the defense from using the words "scapegoat" and "cover-up" during opening statements.
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For his part, Mr. Dean has long maintained his colleagues sought to make him a scapegoat.
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Mr. Trump's loyalists on the staff attempted to spy on, scapegoat and smear their nonpolitical colleagues.
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The Knicks hoped he could be a savior, but he may leave asmore of a scapegoat.
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By focusing on the nuclear program, Trump gave himself a scapegoat -- his predecessor President Barack Obama.
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"They can conveniently use it as a scapegoat for their own preconceived notions," Ms. Storm said.
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Dugan says that glitter has simply become a scapegoat for the beauty industry's massive pollution problem.
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But the latest research "is looking straight at technology and wanting it to be the scapegoat."
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On the other hand, he added, "he needs a scapegoat so he can change the channel."
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Tellingly, the real nature of the foreigner is less important than its existence as a scapegoat.
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Stick around Trump long enough and he will scapegoat you or turn on you or both.
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But they also provide the ruling regime a scapegoat to justify greater control over the economy.
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Therefore we condemn the use of this topic to scapegoat the poor, or another country's citizens.
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Government opponents argued that the charges were manipulated and that Simonovis was being made a scapegoat.
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But I see anti-racism as a dystopic thing that once gave the benefit of the doubt to the idea of racial differences and has evolved into this stifling dogma that has a scapegoat and that scapegoat is white people and those who are deemed as racist.
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Both have engaged in the sort of scapegoat tactics that often characterize the bad form of populism.
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One was Ahmed al-Assiri, a deputy intelligence chief rumoured for days to be a possible scapegoat.
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My view is that I'm being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
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Revenge is the easiest form of righteousness and a scapegoat is a welcome substitute for self-sacrifice.
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And secondly, I really hope and sincerely hope that Peter Strzok doesn&apost just become the scapegoat.
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Chuck Schumer personally met with Franken and urged him to resign — so why is Gillibrand the scapegoat?
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He looks likely to be pushed out after October 14th as the scapegoat for a CSU disaster.
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Yet there is no convenient scapegoat for Ray's torment: her entire society is complicit in the sin.
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Stop using "circumstances beyond my control" as the scapegoat for your own choices, decisions, behaviors and actions.
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Now they have found a scapegoat: the European Central Bank and its suspiciously Italian chairman, Mario Draghi.
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Gun rights advocates have found their scapegoat, but fortunately for all of us, Parkland isn't buying it.
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He can also serve as a convenient scapegoat for the failure of repeal and replace on Obamacare.
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They then lost the series in Game 7, as Bartman became something of a scapegoat n Chicago.
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Trump is always looking to shift blame -- and Price is a perfect scapegoat in all of this.
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They empower them to use force and to galvanize their people through the creation of a scapegoat.
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Following her sentencing, Kelly said she refused to be a "scapegoat" and vowed to fight her conviction.
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We didn't want to go all out with it in the way a band like Scapegoat would.
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How do leaders persuade people to accept their repressive agendas, scapegoat targeted groups and disrespect democratic norms?
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You stated that so-called "badly run and weak companies" are using your tariffs as a scapegoat.
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He wants it to do more and, in the meantime, plans to use it as a scapegoat.
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The deputy attorney general threatened to quit because Trump has made him the scapegoat for the firing.
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Some advisers fear that the inquiry is a hunt for a scapegoat, people familiar with it said.
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In the final year of his contract after extension talks collapsed, D'Antoni is the most likely scapegoat.
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Every day I resist forces that label me as the Other or a scapegoat for society's problems.
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He said the attention has made police chiefs an easy scapegoat for politicians aiming to quell unrest.
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She insists that her presence would only paralyze the relief effort, but ends up becoming the scapegoat.
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Critics say Maduro routinely uses Washington as a scapegoat for the OPEC member's political and economic meltdown.
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Thomasin, the family's teenage daughter, swiftly becomes the scapegoat for the unnatural incidents that plague the family.
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The phrase has become a go-to explanation — or scapegoat — for when things go a little haywire.
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Mr. Liu said in an interview that he was being made a scapegoat and was appealing the fine.
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Though Furman says he believes that, as with other economic factors, technology too often serves as a scapegoat.
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The Times said by making Asiri a scapegoat, the government could help shield the crown prince from blame.
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Republican Congress member and Tennessee gubernatorial hopeful Diane Black added another scapegoat to the gun violence list: porn.
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Chinese-American activists organized their own rallies after his conviction, claiming Liang was a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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But the candidate's willingness to scapegoat American Muslims and refugees also seems to have played a major role.
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"It's being used as a scapegoat — they're looking for somebody to blame," one Moran politician told the Times.
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They were trying to make sense of Clinton's impending loss and found the perfect scapegoat -- a dead gorilla.
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And Trump's willingness to repeatedly scapegoat minorities is a haunting echo of the worst demagoguery of the 1930s.
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It's just been done with video games so many times you'd think people would find a different scapegoat.
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The eucalyptus tree is a scapegoat for a bigger problem, argues Marc Castellnou, a fire analyst in Spain.
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Susan Rice becomes a scapegoat; a deadly chemical attack targets Syrian civilians; Republicans reanimate their health care debate.
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Conservative critics, both in and outside government, regularly scapegoat the UN for the failures of its member states.
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Rather than learn, understand, adapt, and change, he will attack, dissemble, scapegoat, use government power to exact revenge.
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There's also the opportunity for Paul DePodesta to become a founding scapegoat of analytics in two different sports!
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"We consider (Baratov) to be a political scapegoat," Amedeo DiCarlo said in a statement sent via text message.
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Instead of lifting up the most marginalized, we scapegoat them and blame them for their lot in life.
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Meanwhile, Chinese-American activists organized their own protests, claiming Liang was serving as a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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Eventually, Trump may need to bring him back into his orbit, if only to use as a scapegoat.
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He's touted his regressive tax as the prescription for cash-strapped cities looking for a convenient financial scapegoat.
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The frustrated Democrats turned the cardboard cutout into a photographic scapegoat that they could unleash their fury on.
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Defense lawyers said the 61-year-old Guzman, whose nickname means "Shorty," was set up as a scapegoat.
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He finds Annie refined, but naïve and probably a little stupid: a perfect scapegoat for a hotel thief.
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Mr. Stewardson, from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, suggested it was unfair to turn Mr. Blair into a scapegoat.
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Calling gun violence a mental health issue is to scapegoat and stigmatize people with mental illness, he said.
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As far as I could tell, he hadn't been at fault, but he made for an easy scapegoat.
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Instead, he finds out at the ball that a former Meyer administration scapegoat has already landed the job.
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Liang's conviction, meanwhile, sparked outcry among Chinese-American activists who said he was a scapegoat for police misconduct.
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If anything, it is about finding a convenient scapegoat to deflect attention from the true crisis around us.
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In such sour times, said Professor Betts, immigrants provide a handy scapegoat, and walls make for easy solutions.
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By symbolically associating themselves with these women, Ohlala's party crashers made the company a scapegoat for these rumors.
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Right-wing groups, notably the John Birch Society, made Marcuse a scapegoat for the upheavals of the 1960s.
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I am sick and tired of watching black and brown women be used as scapegoat for white nationalism.
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The spokesman also said Elliott was only looking for a "scapegoat" for all its unfulfilled promises at TIM.
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Kim Jong-un was looking for a scapegoat to blame for a disastrous summit meeting with President Trump.
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For a company exhausted by a year of scandal, a regulatory scapegoat is just what the doctor ordered.
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Furthermore, Maduro's anti-corruption arrests also allow him to claim a scapegoat that can explain Venezuela's economic debacle.
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An opposition lawmaker, Sezgin Tanrikulu, said Mr. Erdogan was looking to find a scapegoat amid an economic crisis.
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The legend of cultural Marxism recycles old anti-Semitic tropes to give those who feel threatened a scapegoat.
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And Mr. Maduro stopped talking about Polar and its peers, finding a new scapegoat in the United States.
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Those searching for an enemy to blame for economic insecurity in Germany had an easy scapegoat: greedy Jews.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has a new scapegoat for the fires in the Amazon: "cool guy" Leonardo DiCaprio.
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And on that front, Silicon Valley may struggle to use the upstart social media firm as a scapegoat.
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Like other presidents in recent decades, he decided the Fed was reasonably effective and useful as a scapegoat.
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But the problems of migrants, borders and Islamophobia were all stoked domestically, with Brussels as a handy scapegoat.
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" When the petition first appeared, Trump immediately condemned it as a scapegoat for the country's "massive Muslim problem.
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Rather than consistently finding a convenient scapegoat, we must focus on resolving the deeper issues at the department, including what it's future relationship looks like with those in the private sector, and not resting until the deeper issues are resolved, rather than waiting for the next cycle of corruption and scapegoat.
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They are calling him a 'scapegoat,' particularly as Akai Gurley's death happened just four months after Eric Garner's death.
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And the media is in many ways a perfect scapegoat, because it sets up Trump for a next act.
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An ironic tension where they use me as the scapegoat of their ... like, I'm always out to get them.
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There is a hypocrisy in trying to boost one's image using the same tools you're exploiting as a scapegoat.
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McCarthy has cast himself as a scapegoat in that case, but says this is not a revenge campaign. Martha.
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Let me explain: Fathers and daughters, justice and mercy, and our need for the scapegoat: "The Merchant" covers everything.
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Maduro needs a good scapegoat: Millions have fled the country due to the crippling economic crisis gripping the country.
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Over the past decade, Saudi rulers have turned to Iran and Shiites every time they needed an easy scapegoat.
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He has been a star defenseman for the Soviet Union's national hockey team, as well as its convenient scapegoat.
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In the office, she lets herself be the scapegoat of her nonprofit's failure to connect with non-Black students.
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"It's not China's fault if South Korean stars eventually become the scapegoat of the Thaad deployment," the editorial said.
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The episode suggests Haynes is a scapegoat for short-lived viral outrage, while other people successfully adapt his work.
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The Black Hebrew Israelites, meanwhile, have said that they are being used as a scapegoat for the students' behavior.
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" It said the U.S. should look inwards to fix its problems instead of using the international society as "scapegoat.
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Elijah Cummings cited the fake Flynn's posts from Monday night about being a scapegoat during a news conference Tuesday.
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I see her, yes, as complicit—yes, she could have spoken out sooner—but I see her as scapegoat.
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China is an easy scapegoat in an election year for candidates looking to win points with a disaffected electorate.
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"Trump will use China as scapegoat to tell (the) American public that it is not his problem," said Yan.
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But in the spirit of his socialist convictions, he too has found a scapegoat for all that ails America.
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His removal is a win for American values," she tweeted, before adding that Flynn must not become a "scapegoat.
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Holding up Russia as a scapegoat won't account for the very serious problems that brought us to this point.
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Pakistan reacted angrily to the charge, claiming it was being used as a "scapegoat" for the problems in Afghanistan.
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Mr. Thiel has turned Gawker into a scapegoat for the shifting world of celebrity culture that we all inhabit.
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Donald Trump has made "the media" into a scapegoat for what has been a brutal stretch of his campaign.
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Accordingly, the question then becomes, is Shulkin yet another bad actor at the VA, or just another political scapegoat?
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He recently expressed a desire to improve relations with the United States, which has been his go-to scapegoat.
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Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), another member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, accused GOP leaders of trying to scapegoat immigrants.
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"My view is that I'm being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica," said Kogan.
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And the intelligence community is frustrated at being disparaged and made into a scapegoat by the president they serve.
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Hitler's Scapegoat by Stephen Koch will be released by Counterpoint Press in the US next year as Hitler's Pawn.
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This very denial is what has set the stage for the riotous resurrection of white entitlement and scapegoat politics.
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But if they take too hard a line they will simply make Brussels a convenient scapegoat for Italian politicians.
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In a shining example of basketball being a game of inches, Leonard was this close to being a scapegoat.
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"All those right-wing religious nationalists" found another convenient scapegoat behind which to rally, and focused their attention there.
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China slapped back after President Trump tried to make it the scapegoat for his administration's stalled negotiations with Pyongyang.
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"It's the same tactic that was used against refugees, just a different scapegoat," said Love Does Not Exclude's Kaczorek.
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Human rights advocates and other defenders of Mr. Reisch said they thought he was being used as a scapegoat.
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Standing outside the courthouse after the hearing, Mr. Swift said that Ms. Salman was being made into a scapegoat.
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Donald Trump is on the hunt for a scapegoat, and he has settled on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
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The developers sued, accusing officials of making their project a scapegoat as voters clamored for action after disastrous flooding.
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In the discussion regarding mental health, social media should be addressed as more than a scapegoat for our problems.
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For Israel's defenders, it is also convenient to make the settlers the scapegoat for all of Israel's supposed sins.
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The eternal Jewish ogre resurfaces — a convenient scapegoat for economic resentments, precariousness, fear, frustration or Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
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It matters that we also acknowledge we're totally capable of sabotaging our own relationships and blaming it on a scapegoat.
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The "SpongeBob SquarePants" musical includes Sandy the squirrel, a scapegoat for Bikini Bottom&aposs problems who is targeted for banishment.
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They turned her into a kind of "scapegoat" and made it a tough situation; she didn't know how to respond.
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Eager for a scapegoat, the president, Hassan Rouhani, sacked the central-bank governor and his deputy who oversaw foreign exchange.
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These politicians, like Trump, hate immigration, fear Islam, and scapegoat elites for a perceived decline in the country's civilized standards.
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"Butter is very high in saturated fat compared to other fat sources, so it became an easy scapegoat," she says.
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Mr Erdogan himself seems to be using America as a scapegoat, intentionally ramping up hostility towards the personnel stationed there.
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They're trying to scapegoat McConnell, whom they already dislike and have clashed with over conservative primary candidates, for repeal's failure.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who served as the first scapegoat in the firing of James Comey, made the announcement.
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While trade liberalization surely hurt some workers, it has more often served as a scapegoat for the ravages of automation.
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If the Fed raises rates and the economy slows, or moves into a recession, Trump has created a convenient scapegoat.
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"If you want somebody who will scapegoat other people, peddle fear and smear, I am not your candidate," she added.
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Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has accused national governments of pandering to eurosceptics by using the EU as a scapegoat.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, centrist New Democrats like Clinton made a scapegoat of leftists like Jesse Jackson.
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Rather than being a compatriot, stuck in the same frustrating, uncomfortable situation, I become a scapegoat for all that frustration.
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China slapped back after President Trump tried to make it the scapegoat for his administration's stalled negotiations with North Korea.
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Already, he said, the Trump administration is intent on casting Mr. Trudeau as the scapegoat if a deal falls through.
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Ultimately, they say, Americans are using Russia as a scapegoat to explain the deep political discord in the United States.
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Violent video games — as well as television and movies — have been a frequent scapegoat for acts of real-world violence.
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Some Google employees and former employees questioned whether she's a scapegoat for what they perceive as mismanagement at the company.
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They're his scapegoat for everything that's wrong in America, from immigration to narcotics to alleged loss of jobs from trade.
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"He told me he was the scapegoat for things that weren't going well" at the Philadelphia Museum, Ms. Krishnan said.
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As 21979 turned into an "annus horribilis," President Jimmy Carter became a scapegoat for all the failures of a decade.
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Still unable to admit Clinton's myriad shortcomings, Sanders's insistence on staying in remains a convenient scapegoat for the party's loss.
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She became Trump's scapegoat for the rising number of migrant families trying to cross the southern border in recent months.
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But we shouldn't be too eager to scapegoat the medium itself as the whole disease, rather than just a symptom.
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"The European Union is our national scapegoat," Sam Gyimah, a Tory M.P. who quit May's government last November, told me.
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"But it is unfair to make Mr Altmaier the economic lobby's scapegoat for its discontent with the grand coalition," he said.
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"We've seen people scapegoat vaccines, and other things, and it creates actual harm on a demographic level," Gu told VICE News.
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" He said in a statement, however, that she should not serve as a scapegoat, blasting Trump for "terrible and cruel policies.
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We need to remain focused on keeping our communities safe and united instead of trying to build walls and scapegoat communities.
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" As for the idea that women were just using Kavanaugh as a scapegoat for their own assaults, Chemaly called it "bullshit.
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Her husband, Néstor Kirchner, turned the fund into a scapegoat after he became president, initially with a weak mandate, in 2003.
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Inevitably, the company's growing presence is making it a scapegoat for common urban woes such as traffic jams and rising rents.
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Buckner became a scapegoat for the team's hard-luck loss and endured boos and even death threats from angry Boston fans.
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It will also provide a steady stream of new people to scapegoat or single out for retribution on a rolling basis.
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And it is easy to see how the impulse to grasp for a scapegoat would be almost irresistible in this scenario.
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This time, the public is against the generals, seeing the young soldier as a scapegoat for the mistakes of his superiors.
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The coordinated efforts to personalize and scapegoat DeVos as a high-profile target have resulted in low popularity ratings for her.
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One reason that Cohen might cooperate is if he feels that he is being made the scapegoat for misconduct by others.
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Those opponents have pointed to California, a frequent scapegoat in Nevada politics, where energy deregulation drove up costs in the 22019s.
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It's in situations like this that many of us, as financial advisors, encourage our clients to use us as a scapegoat.
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While trade has been the chief scapegoat, a major culprit has received much less attention: the rising cost of health insurance.
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"If you talk to any boxer hot off the ring, if he loses, the organization is an easy scapegoat," Jomard said.
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Unfortunately, state governments don't turn out to be a very satisfying villain for those looking for a scapegoat for higher tuition.
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But he still downplayed a very serious oncoming disaster, and put the blame on his standard scapegoat: The Liberal Media Conspiracy.
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The election of Donald Trump was so shocking — and damaging to the country — that many people went looking for a scapegoat.
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The problem is, the one thing our nation remains world-class at is tabloid media, who live to vent and scapegoat.
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He added that the League leader was trying to find a scapegoat for his failed effort to rush to the polls.
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Flake, on Monday, appeared to knock the president over his rhetoric, saying trade is sometimes used as a "scapegoat" during campaigns.
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Still, dexterous performances abound: Shirine Babb delicately unravels her Tituba, the Bajan servant made to be the scapegoat to Abigail's schemes.
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"The definition of 'scapegoat' is these two troopers," Rodney Moore, the father of the driver, Keshon Moore, told me in 1999.
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Kelly maintains that she was a scapegoat for Christie and that the case against her was an example of prosecutorial overreach.
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Jeb Bush vowed Monday that he will not scapegoat President Obama for any challenges he faces should he be elected president.
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For Mr. Schnatter to use the colonel as a scapegoat for his own horrible, disgusting mouth and racist beliefs is inexcusable.
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An attorney for Harris described him as a convenient scapegoat and urged jurors not to find him responsible for the deaths.
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The donor can use it as a buffer and make the executive director the scapegoat if a gift isn't given. Mrs.
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He's an innocent scapegoat who will get smeared as a "bad apple" by a corporation that off-loads its real crimes.
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The superdelegates have become something of a convenient scapegoat for Sanders, who lost because he got millions fewer votes than Clinton.
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In fact, this snake may find a rat (Craig, played by Girls star Alex Karpovsky) to take his place as the scapegoat.
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With tens of thousands of Venezuelans crossing the border each day, many in Colombia are looking for a scapegoat for existing problems.
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There's also the possibility that whoever killed (or at least very badly hurt Midge) was using the Black Hood as a scapegoat.
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And Russia now is an easy scapegoat for officials to point at when things go wrong: vulnerabilities in technology, election surprises, etc.
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But as soon as the words are out of his mouth, he figures out a new plan; he'll make Heidi the scapegoat.
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" Zaharie's sister, Sakinab Shah, told CNN her brother had been made a "scapegoat" and that any claims against him were a "fabrication.
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The title's appeal to younger audiences will make it a likely scapegoat as the usual choir sings its disdain for video games.
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And it's easier to target affirmative action as a scapegoat than to make changes in the distribution of wealth and political power.
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Like the Satanic Panic of the '80s, this scapegoat covers up much realer social issues at play that are harder to address.
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Hayes said during his trial that he later decided to fight the charges out of rage at being turned into a scapegoat.
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Geopolitics is the latest scapegoat, followed closely by President Donald Trump's renewed commitment to difficult health-care reform before tackling tax cuts.
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In a statement on his website via his son, O'Barry said he was being used as a scapegoat for animal rights activists.
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So far, Snipes has tried to maintain a low profile as conservatives have turned her into a scapegoat for Florida's election problems.
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It's an expedient scapegoat so they can avoid tough questions about defunding climate programs and dismissing scientists even as climate change accelerates.
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Labour will not set a cap on immigration and has said it will not "scapegoat" migrants for the problems facing some communities.
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He wants to be in front, getting the credit, unless something goes wrong, in which case he gropes immediately for a scapegoat.
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He can deregulate, scapegoat, and unburden law enforcement to turn his Herrenvolk fantasy into reality—all while keeping congressional investigators at bay.
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Less extreme, but nonetheless shocking, is the case of Andreas Georgiou, who has gone from Greece's chief statistician to its chief scapegoat.
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But with a rate hike unlikely until March at the earliest, Trump's anger with his preferred economic scapegoat appears to be easing.
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The second and third tweets are what you expect from Trump, since he has long tried to make a scapegoat of Clinton.
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"The fact that we're the scapegoat of Europe, and we are the pariah — these are all emotions most Greeks have," she added.
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For conservatives unwilling to blame the widespread availability of deadly weapons for this latest massacre, atheism may seem like a convenient scapegoat.
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"The Fed's an easy scapegoat when you're not doing your own job as well," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton.
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Most Democratic leaders, for their part, seem determined to implicitly — or even explicitly — scapegoat the Russian government for the presidential election results.
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Instead, these new policies exploit desperate families in order to punish, scapegoat, and traumatize — all under the banner of law and order.
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Last week Johnson & Johnson filed a motion to end the case, saying that the company was made a "scapegoat" in the lawsuit.
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Astrology is not a tool for dismissing people or experiences, or a scapegoat on which to blame all your problems and decisions.
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Even with Lyle on your side, if you have been appointed the Company's scapegoat, you best bleat your way onto the altar.
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Per Axios' Dan Primack, this could be Trump's way of setting up a scapegoat in the event that the economy turns south.
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Her lawyers have argued that virtually the entire governor's office knew about the closings and that she has been made a scapegoat.
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In her appellate papers, Ms. Aldea claimed that Mr. Herskovic was "a scapegoat" for others who were never prosecuted in the case.
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HIV researcher Richard Elion noted the flight attendant has served as a scapegoat, allowing people to ignore their own risks and vulnerabilities.
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Danniella Westbrook, an actress and friend of Mr. Kyle, said in a telephone interview that the host was being made a scapegoat.
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Worried about escalating rents and home prices, many people have pointed to the economy, in particular the technology industry, as a scapegoat.
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It is childish to turn what is nothing more than a tool or instrument into a scapegoat for our own moral failings.
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Sometimes, when the government abuses its tremendous power to scapegoat someone, even proponents of government power find it to be too much.
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Mr. Schulte's lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, has called him an easy scapegoat for the C.I.A. because he had antagonized so many colleagues there.
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Democrats see a scapegoat tarred for doing her job and used as a distraction from an F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Trump's associates.
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Usual scapegoat: In the meeting, the presumptive presidential nominee blamed the media for reporting that he praised former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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MBS will spin some tale about how rogue elements did this, they'll punish a scapegoat, and then the spigots will flow again.
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White House advisor Steven Bannon is unlikely to leave, but Trump could throw him overboard if he needs a scapegoat, Valliere said.
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But American national security demands that we not allow Michael Flynn to become a scapegoat for this Admin's disturbing ties to Russia.
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This resulted in wide public discontent, and a high-ranking Workers' Party official was executed as a scapegoat for the government's decision.
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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which Mr Abe heads, is casting around for a scapegoat following a drubbing by voters in the capital.
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Timothy Leary, the renegade psychologist and psychedelic evangelist who told kids to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," is the familiar scapegoat.
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Pakistan denies the allegations, saying that Washington has been trying to make it a scapegoat for the failures of its war in Afghanistan.
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And, she's not afraid to put certain things out there, and she, in some ways, is a scapegoat for bigger issues at play.
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Those in charge use those living in static cities as a scapegoat, making them out to be terrible people who are hoarding resources.
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Comey and the FBI went from Trump's scapegoat to the Republican nominee's hero, with Trump claiming Comey had redeemed himself just in time.
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When the economy turns negative, Trump and legislators will no doubt target the Fed, both as the scapegoat and as a potential rescuer.
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After shooting massacres last weekend killed 31 people and wounded dozens, some politicians are once again turning to a familiar scapegoat: video games.
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We cannot be detoured by those who would play to the worst of our feelings, who would divide us, who would scapegoat up.
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To be clear, alcohol isn't the problem; sexual harassment and assault are the problem, and alcohol is a scapegoat for that awful behavior.
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The cult is nothing more than a scapegoat, a whipping boy for all of the problems of Hope County and America writ large.
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A scapegoat can either save the night or — if the chef doesn't put any thought into it — the dish can lead to disaster.
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In that way, she was like all conquered peoples and power-hungry parties; without a scapegoat she had no chance of confronting reality.
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Cory Jacobs, the trial attorney for the U.S. government, "flatly objected" to the assertion that Ramirez was made a "scapegoat" for the scheme.
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Mason -- the former commissioner of the BIG3 -- had filed court docs claiming league execs used him as a scapegoat for their money woes.
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This, however, did not stop the chorus of right-wing agitation against migrants, a go-to scapegoat for any and all social ills.
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Analysts say Mr. Davutoglu will most likely be cast as the scapegoat for Turkey's Syria policy by Mr. Erdogan and his inner circle.
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But I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their disability.
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"The salmon population is in great decline and recreational, commercial and tribal fishermen are looking at sea lions as a scapegoat," Joyce said.
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If it means trying to build the media up as a scapegoat to cover up a slower-than-ideal response to Maria's aftermath?
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Following the tragic mass shootings that took place in Texas and Ohio, a number of Republicans rolled out a tired scapegoat: video games.
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But a scapegoat is what the president wanted and that's what he got in his beleaguered soon-to-be former Homeland Security secretary.
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You dishonor our dead by using them to score political points and to scapegoat entire groups of people like Muslims, immigrants, and Latinos.
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Dunham wants to continue the discussion around women's body issues, but without using the magazine as a scapegoat for a much larger problem.
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Cotero told Reuters that his agency was not responsible for storing the unclaimed bodies, and accused the government of making him a scapegoat.
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"They should not make Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures in Afghanistan," Asif said in an interview with Geo TV late on Tuesday.
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It also gives the new administration a convenient scapegoat for their continued struggles with public opinion, and their potential future struggles with reality.
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The executive who Holder accused was fired, and he sued FOX, claiming he was just a "scapegoat" for its issues with sexual harassment.
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While the trade war with the United States provides a handy scapegoat, public blame for a prolonged downturn could ultimately fall on him.
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Some called it President Nicolás Maduro's most brazen attempt yet to scapegoat critics for the blackout — and for the country's accelerating economic collapse.
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"It's being used as a scapegoat — they're looking for somebody to blame," said Lanham Martin, a Shackelford County commissioner who lives in Moran.
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In a statement responding to Trump's tweet, Americans for Free Trade spokeswoman Bethany Aronhalt disputed that businesses had used tariffs as a scapegoat.
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Turks are struggling with the soaring cost of living and high unemployment, and Syrians have become an easy scapegoat for their economic woes.
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Whatever the reason for lost jobs, people point fingers at the coming robotic workforce — but what if the scapegoat was an actual goat?
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"The buck should stop with Azar, not Redfield," said one former official, while acknowledging that the CDC chief might be a convenient scapegoat.
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Shiv (Sarah Snook) is brought up, as well as Greg, but ultimately Logan decides that Kendall is the best scapegoat for all this.
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That has made his tough approach a scapegoat for the downturn, and it is difficult to overstate the animosity toward federal environmental agencies.
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There could also be an effort to scapegoat the Fed if (or rather, when) the administration's unrealistic economic growth estimates fail to materialize.
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Added to the scapegoat list will be any departing Cabinet or top White House officials, said a Republican close to the White House.
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Her team is convinced the investigation and charges were initiated to intimidate other taxpayers and use Shakira as a "scapegoat," the source tells PEOPLE.
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There is the risk that Trump could use the Federal Reserve as a political scapegoat, which may put pressure on future central bank decisions.
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Wuhan's mayor, Zhou Xianwang, has offered himself up as a scapegoat, offering lat month to step down to placate locals' anger at the outbreak.
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Yet he would die of starvation in prison in 1943, condemned to death under Stalin as a scapegoat for the Soviet Union's agricultural failures.
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That Ms. Danius lost her position while Mr. Arnault remains under investigation led her defenders to say that she had been made a scapegoat.
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For his part Kogan has maintained he did nothing illegal — telling the Guardian last month that he's being used as a scapegoat by Facebook.
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In Britain, racism and bigotry are flourishing spectacularly as the older generation seeks a scapegoat for their growing irrelevance in the modern, globalized economy.
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The academic at the heart of the Facebook data scandal has said he is being used as a scapegoat by the US tech giant.
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While I accept full responsibility for my actions, I feel it is unfair that I have been made the sole scapegoat for what happened.
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Her sham marriage to Tyrion ended in disaster, with the Tyrells using her to poison Joffrey and scapegoat Tyrion for it in season four.
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Williams added that the front office also shared in the blame, and said he did not want Price or Jenkins to be a scapegoat.
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He will have an excuse of a scapegoat for any of his failures, like he did when he thought he was losing the election.
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Brennan's comments follow a tweet from the former CIA director accusing the president of turning McCabe into a "scapegoat" for problems at the FBI.
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However, the president is mistaken to scapegoat Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for the dollar's rise as he is now again starting to do.
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Boris Johnson understood, in his scurrilous way, that the E.U. had become a perfect scapegoat for Western societies beset by the dilemmas of modernity.
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In an interview with a local TV channel before the hearing, Deguito denied any wrongdoing and said she was being used as a scapegoat.
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Tech is neither the solution nor the scapegoat for all problems, he says, and he urges Silicon Valley to look to history for answers.
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Adele has since become the unfortunate scapegoat for a larger discussion about representation due to forces more or less entirely out of her hands.
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And for those who — to borrow the title of his Lindbergh book — made an easy scapegoat out of their grocer, he had bad news.
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His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, told jurors in his opening statement that Ismael Zambada was the leader of the cartel, and Guzman a mere scapegoat.
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Already some indicators show signs of a slowdown, though if it worsens significantly Beijing may find Mr. Trump's tariffs could make a convenient scapegoat.
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From this perspective, the European Union was primarily a scapegoat for a host of resentments, from globalization to the state of schools and hospitals.
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Trade, in this view, has become a scapegoat for issues including the decline of manufacturing in developed economies and the rise of income inequality.
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And Christianity, a religion centered around the crucifixion of an innocent scapegoat, promised transcendence of the entire dynamic with the revelation of its cruelty.
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We can't become a scapegoat in the fight between Iran and the US today ... if we still want a country called Lebanon to exist.
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His lawyers are seeking to prove that another drug lord, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, actually ran the cartel and used Guzman as a scapegoat.
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But critics say company executives used the systems as a scapegoat to obfuscate the consequences of other business failures, my colleague Drew Harwell reports.
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"Paris and Berlin share the same ambition: the European Union cannot be the scapegoat of steel trade tensions generated by other countries," he said.
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Politicians seeking to punish consumers for buying sugary drinks have seized upon a convenient scapegoat, but they have ignored principles of sound tax policy.
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Van Horn came back to the United States voluntarily as she has nothing to hide," said Detoto, who added Van Horn is a "scapegoat.
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She exacts revenge on her insubordinate vice president, Tom James (a dry, hangdog Hugh Laurie), by making him the scapegoat for a potentially failing economy.
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In an interview with Handelsblatt, a German daily, she pointed to Brexit as evidence of the risks of making the European Union (EU) a scapegoat.
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Russian media uniformly rejected that possibility, saying that the attack was yet another instance of the West using Russia as a scapegoat for its problems.
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And at the worst, he will be a powerless doubter of a Republican president -- or alternatively, a scapegoat that made a President Hillary Clinton possible.
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Across the world, populist strongmen who seek to concentrate power in their own hands and scapegoat minorities for their countries' ills are on the rise.
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Trump has used the Fed as a scapegoat, asserting how much stronger he thinks the economy would be if the Fed had halted policy tightening.
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As the years went on and moral panic decreased, it became evident Ward was made a scapegoat to save the reputation of the Macmillan government.
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"Colombia is increasingly seen as a scapegoat for Maduro for the problems he faces in Venezuela, problems he created in his own country," Marczak said.
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There are also persistent rumors that current No. 2, Premier Li Keqiang, could see himself officially replaced, forced to play scapegoat for slowing economic growth.
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But per the paper, that high position didn't save him; in fact, it may have led to his downfall since he made a good scapegoat.
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But it could also become a high-profile distraction, giving the Trump administration a convenient scapegoat—it's already being referred to as a witch hunt.
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Mr. Thiel is the most famous student of René Girard, the celebrated professor of philosophy at Stanford who developed the concept of the scapegoat mechanism.
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"The disastrous trade war is a convenient scapegoat for the failures of their tax bill, which has not delivered for middle-class families," he said.
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Kogan has said he is a scapegoat in the scandal and claimed to not have known that the data was being used to target voters.
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Kogan, however, has claimed he did not know the data was being used to target voters and that he is a scapegoat in the controversy.
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At the same time, there is a growing tendency on the left to scapegoat Big Business and our country's most successful people for society's ills.
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Again, I knew from my sources that Lee was being used as a scapegoat so that the government could say it had gotten its man.
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She calls herself a scapegoat, claiming she is the target of a vendetta and a plot by her enemies to discredit her with Pope Francis.
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The media is his favorite scapegoat but he's turned his fire on members of his own Cabinet -- Jeff Sessions, Tom Price, Rex Tillerson -- as well.
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Indeed, Gubarev's lawyer has repeatedly suggested his client might have been framed by a competitor or someone looking for a scapegoat in the computer business.
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The Trump administration continues to scapegoat immigrants and refugees and paint them with one brush as violent individuals bringing crime and violence into our country.
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Hundreds of protesters waved flags saying "No Scapegoat," and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to Chinatown, where Liang grew up, calling for a fair trial.
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"Immigrants are the perfect scapegoat for all manner of angst, both economic and cultural, and very easy fertile ground for the populists," an economist said.
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And the current scapegoat seems to be the protesters of the far left — those who dared to criticize the Workers' Party's decisions in the past.
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He has used the Federal Reserve and chair Jerome Powell, who he appointed, as a scapegoat, and publicly pushed Powell to keep interest rates low.
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"The president is using the Fed as a scapegoat for his own economic policy mistakes," Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, told me.
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But after she was indicted, her message shifted in court, as her lawyers portrayed her as the scapegoat — a "human piñata" — for the Christie administration.
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In opening statements, the defense claimed that Mr. Guzmán was a "scapegoat" in a vast conspiracy that included American drug agents and top Mexican officials.
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He was cast in many reports as Patient Zero of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and became a medical scapegoat in North America in the 1980s.
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Obama has not held office for three years, but that seems to be no obstacle for Trump to use him as a scapegoat once again.
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By dividing a movie on this topic between France and Israel, Ms. Fairrie implicitly turns anti-Israel sentiment into a reductive scapegoat for anti-Semitism.
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A man willing to humiliate people who work for him, to play staffers against one another, to scapegoat underlings to keep blame off of himself.
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Several Republican strategists say Cuz doesn't want to become a scapegoat for Trump losing to Clinton if he withholds support and other conservatives follow suit.
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This person said Trump views the Fed as the perfect scapegoat should the economy slow significantly this year and next ahead of his reelection campaign.
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But Medvedev, as prime minister, was left as a convenient scapegoat for Russia's domestic problems: a stagnant economy, low wages and pensions, and enduring corruption.
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" She said Deputy Scot Peterson, who was on the grounds during the shooting and resigned following an internal investigation, was being used as a "scapegoat.
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But figures on the continent's far right have treated the crisis as a prime opportunity to scapegoat refugees and push their arguments for closed borders.
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Weitzmann details a number of recent incidents in which Jews have become the scapegoat in a nationalist moment looking for cosmopolitan, globalized elites as culprits.
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Fleury was the scapegoat for the Penguins' failures between 2010 and 2013, which means a Conn Smythe Trophy and Stanley Cup would complete his redemption story.
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"Immigrants have always been a convenient scapegoat," Walter A. Ewing, a senior researcher at the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit group in Washington, said on Wednesday.
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In relationships, this gap can be especially pernicious, he said, as sleep schedules become a convenient scapegoat for problems that have nothing to do with sleep.
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Trump's election happened in part because he harnessed the fear of less-educated American whites looking for an easy answer or scapegoat for their financial troubles.
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Political strife may be an easy scapegoat, but Bloomberg actually points to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA), which went into effect back in 2010.
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Cheaper grocery prices have been a recent scapegoat to explain why consumers are spending less money at restaurants, but don't expect Darden Restaurants' CEO to agree.
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We follow McClendon into his post, where he argues with Dar about the merits of using Quinn as a scapegoat for what's about to go down.
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While some of his supporters were certainly drawn to his divisive, bigoted rhetoric and scapegoat politics, many others are members of the working and middle classes.
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But the clean power rules just targeted by Trump are a particularly ludicrous scapegoat for coal's declining fortunes because they haven't even gone into effect yet.
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Perhaps Johnson envisioned a future as the latest Cavalier scapegoat, his mere presence further disrupting the harmony of what should be a dominant team but isn't.
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And as we've said in our Hill column before, the recession by no means can serve as the scapegoat for the challenges facing the manufacturing industry.
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Many populists who seemed benign at the beginning of their political rise quickly proved just as willing to scapegoat vulnerable minorities as their right-wing counterparts.
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The company has certainly been facing increased attacks in recent times, including from politicians seeking to scapegoat tech platforms for not doing enough to counter extremism.
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If politicians want a scapegoat for the low rates that bedevil their savers, they would do better to look in the mirror than target the ECB.
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Now, when nationalist leaders around the world need a scapegoat, they're increasingly using a familiar playbook to smear Soros as the source of their country's problems.
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Orban used Soros as a scapegoat in the election campaign, accusing the Hungarian-born philanthropist of seeking to undermine the cultural and ethnic makeup of Europe.
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And whatever they thought of Merkel, the euroskeptics had the luxury of a scapegoat who at the same time was willing to come to their rescue.
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"He is a scapegoat for any shortcomings, real or perceived, in the university's handling of sexual harassment claims and related policies and procedures," Mr. Taylor wrote.
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"To scapegoat Pakistan will not help in stabilizing Afghanistan," the country's National Security Committee said in a statement Thursday after a meeting on Trump's Afghanistan strategy.
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Parente's market-friendly policies had ultimately made him the scapegoat of the truckers strike and its fallout, said Roberto Castello Branco, a former Petrobras board member.
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Redemption helped fuel the disfranchisement and vulnerability that put Forsyth County's black population in the hands of whites more than willing to scapegoat, terrorize and kill.
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On Friday, the Kremlin lobbed accusations back at Washington, saying the US wanted to develop weapons that violate the treaty and is using Russia as scapegoat.
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Amazon quickly would have become the largest employer, the permanent front-page story and the obvious scapegoat for civic problems in any of these midsize cities.
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WATCH: M.S. Douglas teacher thinks Officer Scot Peterson is being used as a "scapegoat" and that he may not have been able to prevent any deaths.
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He says he has become a scapegoat over the banking scandal, which weakened Moldova's currency and damaged living standards in what was already Europe's poorest country.
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But France's relationship with them has in some ways soured, their very pervasiveness making them a convenient scapegoat for many of France's ills, real or perceived.
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Berg loops the footage with seven different narrations, each adding a dimension to Josselson's character: agent, victim, independent thinker, political organizer, imposter, idealist, scapegoat, and opportunist.
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The NGOs say they are being made the scapegoat for the EU's own failure to manage migration as politicians tap into higher anti-immigration sentiment among voters.
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The first source is the Democratic Party, which has become obsessed with creating a retroactive election scandal and a scapegoat for its stunning loss in that election.
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But eight years later, after a photoshoot with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president, and a humiliating World Cup exit, Mr Özil has become a national scapegoat.
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Perhaps this in itself tells us something about why Pokémon Go—and more broadly,Pokémon—has a way of becoming a scapegoat for all the world's ills.
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If they want to use me as the evil lib scapegoat to scare their weird reactionary followers about my devious, Satan-worshipping ways, I'm fine with it.
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The free movement of people to and from the EU would end, but what would replace it is left unsaid, beyond a pledge not to "scapegoat migrants".
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Rising bipartisan political forces in Europe and the U.S. have "revived old patterns that scapegoat Jews for society's ills," Yaroslav Trofimov writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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The Vice Minister, Sandoval, agrees that everyone is looking for a scapegoat; but in a surprising move, he volunteers, saying that he will take responsibility for everything.
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Photo: GettyOver the years, tech companies have found a convenient scapegoat for some of their most egregious mistakes in a voiceless part of their operations—their algorithms.
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Perhaps this in itself tells us something about why Pokémon Go—and more broadly, Pokémon—has a way of becoming a scapegoat for all the world's ills.
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The Polish and Czech foreign ministers called last week for European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to resign as a scapegoat for the June 23 British vote.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hit back at Trump by saying the United States is turning Pakistan into a "scapegoat" to mask its own failures in Afghanistan.
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"I think that he is being used as an unjust scapegoat by the opponents of recent immigration practices," Andrew Jezic, Sanchez Milian's lawyer, told the Washington Post.
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It is a surge, of sorts, backed by a rap on the knuckles for Pakistan (which remains an abiding and favorite scapegoat for US failures in Afghanistan).
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Jackson doesn't have the stink of a big decline on him, so his front office probably can't use him as a scapegoat without exposing their own necks.
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She also said she was a convenient scapegoat for something she cannot control: the global plunge in commodity prices that has sent the economy into a tailspin.
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Michael Critchley, Kelly's lawyer, told jurors in his opening statement that his client was being made a scapegoat for "Bridgegate" and its effect on Christie's presidential hopes.
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But in some cases, flagging demand in China may be a convenient scapegoat for struggling companies, according to Ed Yardeni, president of investment advisory firm Yardeni Research.
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"My view is that I'm being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica," Kogan told the BBC in an interview that aired Wednesday.
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Mr. Hasen said that while it initially seemed Mr. Trump was merely seeking an early scapegoat for a possible loss, his language had taken a darker turn.
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With Robert serving as scapegoat, the defenders of England's crumbling system of morality went so far as to demand a recall of the Education Act of 1870.
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And by and large, religion, which is about bringing healing and blessings to humankind, was used as a scapegoat to justify the worst humanity has to offer.
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And of course, that was the whole point—the league figured it could get the result it wanted (no Olympics) and the scapegoat it needed (the players).
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Related: The Problem of America's 'Warehousing' of the Mentally Ill in Jails "We should be cautious about using mental illness as a scapegoat for crime," McCray said.
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Far less clear is whether the arrest represents a fundamental change in Honduras or merely the sacrifice of a scapegoat in a case that got too big.
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It paves the way for L.G.B.T.Q. Bermudians to become society's scapegoat, to be blamed for any slide in foreign tourism and negative impact on the country's economy.
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Another is Michael D. Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, who told allies he did not want to be made the scapegoat for Mr. Trump's legal troubles.
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And he said the commodities trading commission was making Lake Shore a scapegoat, flexing its enforcement muscles after failing to prevent other hedge funds from blowing up.
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What to watch: Maduro, always spoiling for a fight with the White House, will likely use the embargo to further scapegoat the U.S. for Venezuela's economic collapse.
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MIGRANTS HAVE become a convenient scapegoat for South Africans frustrated by a slumping economy and rampant unemployment—and for the politicians who might otherwise take the blame.
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"Clover" may or may not take place in the mind of a dying man named Joe Cronin (James B. Kennedy), a convenient scapegoat for any storytelling eccentricities.
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But I believe that adults try to use phones as a scapegoat instead of admitting that there are bigger issues, such as global warming, political divisions etc.
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Titled "Scapegoat," a term that goes back to the Bible, the sculpture is like a caricature of a political monument or the abandoned plaything of a deity.
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In an otherwise relativistic and disenchanted world, Mr. Sieferle writes, Germans appear in this narrative as the absolute enemies of our common humanity, as a scapegoat people.
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"Teachers are not the scapegoat for a system that is clearly broken and has been suppressing minority voices and the voices of those with disabilities," she said.
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In his memoir, Annan recognized the costs of taking on the world's top diplomatic job, joking that "SG," for secretary-general, also signified "scapegoat" around U.N. headquarters.
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Europe thus risks becoming the next scapegoat for Trump's failure to do anything to boost the competitiveness or sustainability of US car plants over the long term.
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Some community board members regard Ms. Pfoser Darby as someone stuck in the past who is looking for a scapegoat for problems such as overcrowding and crime.
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But then I saw Mr. Trump using the campaign to scapegoat all kinds of immigrants and refugees, and I realized that they might come after us, too.
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Imran Khan, Pakistan's own hot-tempered populist prime minister, then newly elected, shot back that his country was tired of being the scapegoat for American failures in Afghanistan.
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Encryption technology has been the scapegoat of choice for Western politicians responding to terrorist attacks for multiple years now, despite governments also operating vast, dragnet digital surveillance programs.
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As the company's apparent scapegoat (one it's worth noting was already leaving the company), Schrage claimed in the memo that responsibility for the firm's hire was his own.
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Catherine braced everyone for her to be the scapegoat but based on Jackson's reaction; I'm predicting now that he will not let that go down as she plans.
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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have blamed Kogan for alleged data misuse, but he has said that he was being made a scapegoat by the companies for the scandal.
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The branch manager, Maia Santos-Deguito, has denied any wrongdoing and in an interview with the local ANC TV channel said she was being used as a scapegoat.
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Froman declined to comment on the candidates but said the TPP had become a "scapegoat" for legitimate concerns over income inequality, stagnant wages and jobs lost to automation.
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He and President Donald Trump, who has made Mexico a scapegoat for crime and industrial decay in the United States, had a friendly phone call after his victory.
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Although many in the tech industry have referenced pipeline problems as a scapegoat for the lack of diversity in their ranks, statistics show that the talent is there.
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"No, we're not going to scapegoat anybody, and I would note that the news story that our team passed on was true and accurate," he said in Goffstown.
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Lewinsky addressed the infamous scandal in a 2014 piece she wrote for Vanity Fair, explaining that she regrets the affair but was made a "scapegoat" for the president.
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Well, with the Knicks going 80-166 in Jackson's three years tenure as president, Jackson has had to find his scapegoat, and Melo seemed like the best bet.
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But that's largely irrelevant if you're looking for a scapegoat—and a way to shift the conversation away from a damaging story suggesting collusion with a foreign government.
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Nonetheless, even if it's merely a scapegoat, the government's history with the Gülen movement is crucial context for understanding what the hell is happening in Turkey right now.
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John Dean was concerned that his superiors in the White House would make him a scapegoat and put the entire blame for the Watergate cover-up on him.
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"With their election debacle, Democrats are looking for a scapegoat," said Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a leading election scholar.
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Tenet and the CIA later became a convenient scapegoat for the policy by Vice President Cheney and other cheerleaders in the administration who promoted the disaster in Iraq.
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It's politically expedient for xenophobic agitators like Mr. Trump to scapegoat the millions of foreigners who have come to the United States in search of a better life.
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He dismisses science, especially when it comes to climate change and the fate of the Amazon rainforest, and he uses propaganda to scapegoat minority groups to sow division.
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Porn has often served as a scapegoat for the general public's proclivities, with some activists closely associating patterns of disrespect for women with the availability of hardcore porn.
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" On Twitter, Erika ripped UNOS for not fixing its "unintentional flaws in new policy" and for using "low organ donation rates as scapegoat for my critical situation (& others).
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The Russian president also accused Democrats of using the question of Russian interference as a scapegoat for their loss and compared their attitude toward Russia to anti-Semitism.
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"I thought they were going to shut me up and make me look like the scapegoat and try to blame me for stuff I haven't done," he said.
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Vladimír Bartovic, director of the EUROPEUM think tank, said Sobotka had faced unsavory options: leaving Babis in place and looking weak, or making him look like a scapegoat.
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" ---- China is not the source of our economic woes—corporate greed is By Jeffrey Sachs "China is being made a scapegoat for rising inequality in the United States.
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"My view is that I'm being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica," he told the BBC in an interview that aired Wednesday. Rep.
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I deplore Trump's tendency to scapegoat refugees and bar the gates to some of the world's most desperate people, but it's not just Trump who is doing this.
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"They should not make Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures in Afghanistan," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said in an interview to Geo TV late Tuesday, Reuters reported.
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"Let us not forget that while I am being used as a convenient scapegoat, those who are truly responsible for the crime remain free and blameless," he said.
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Kogan, who gathered the data by running a survey app on Facebook, also said he was being made a scapegoat by the social media firm and Cambridge Analytica.
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Drugs were everywhere, and that made the owner, eye-patch wearing Canadian Peter Gatien, the perfect scapegoat for the newly elected mayor, Rudy Giuliani's, "tough on crime" routine.
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We love a scapegoat, a story with clean lines — here, the provincial museum that should've known better, the villain curator with the privileged blue-chip artist past his prime.
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Jones claimed that Gilmore and left-wingers "staged" the attack as part of a conspiracy funded by George Soros, a Jewish billionaire who is a favorite scapegoat of conspiracists.
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Instead of focusing on finding a scapegoat and building a wall, we should focus on finding solutions and giving people the skills necessary to succeed in the new industries.
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Sister: He's been made a scapegoat Sakinab Shah, the captain's sister, continues to defend him amid the reports that he took the plane down in an elaborate murder-suicide.
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But that doesn't stop him from using Vanessa as a scapegoat when Issa wants to know if she can extend her stay at his place for a little longer.
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Red Bull brought the laughs with a quirky tale of Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant befriending a goat — the animal Cubs lore considers the, well, scapegoat behind its curse.
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The Eurosceptic turn in Italy is partly explained by the country's dreadful economic stagnation, and high unemployment, especially among the young; the single currency makes for an obvious scapegoat.
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And as Kourtney Kardashian discovered on Sunday, the cell phone serves another very important purpose: the perfect scapegoat for when you need to take a good old-fashioned belfie.
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These individuals have all borne the burden of our criminal justice system's failures, and by extension, our society's shortcomings: our racism, classism, and impulse to scapegoat, vilify, and punish.
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Blaming sanctions for a government's decision to use its resources to fight wars against its own people while regime officials enrich themselves personally is to provide a convenient scapegoat.
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They claim these measures are designed to "Make America Great Again," but really they are enacted to intimidate, scapegoat and suppress the rights of racial, ethnic and religious minorities.
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But officials within the New Order regime were pointing their fingers at the country's ethnic Chinese minority, a group that those in power have long used as a scapegoat.
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" The report argues that trade is often a convenient scapegoat for much broader economic dislocations that are "primarily caused by other factors, especially increasing productivity and advancements in technology.
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By attacking Ryan on Twitter as disloyal and a "weak and ineffectual leader," Trump is setting up the Wisconsin lawmaker as the scapegoat for a possible Election Day disaster.
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It seems that many politicians, most of whom are financially backed by the National Rifle Association, see mental illness as an easy scapegoat for our nation's gun violence crisis.
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To cover for its egregious human rights abuses, the regime has begun using the protection of religious minorities as its scapegoat, while continuing to abuse their rights even further.
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The president was quick to blame the Federal Reserve for Wednesday's stock plunge, heaping scorn on his frequent economic scapegoat as central banks around the world cut their rates.
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China has become a scapegoat for U.S. stock weakness, but equities will struggle to rise this year because of the American economy, widely followed bear Marc Faber said Thursday.
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Not only has it failed to convince most Republicans; it might even have helped Trump by giving him a convenient scapegoat to blame for the problems of his candidacy.
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His press conferences are a form of entertainment in themselves at this point, in that we're never quite sure which of his own squad he's going to scapegoat next.
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Kapoor denies accusations and his lawyer said he had been made into a scapegoat because of public resentment at Yes Bank after the central bank imposed limits on withdrawals.
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They say they are being made a scapegoat for the American military's failure in Afghanistan, where after 17 years of war the Taliban control large portions of the country.
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The movie tells the story of an orphan, Shula (Maggie Mulubwa), who will soon share their fate after she's accused of witchcraft, as a scapegoat for not very much.
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Guzman's lawyers have portrayed their client as a scapegoat for what they called Sinaloa's real leader, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who also faces U.S. charges but remains at large.
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" Email, the paper suggested, had actually become an "interpretive scapegoat for the workers' perceptions that they were expected to do more than they could reasonably accomplish in a day.
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In fact, I predict that as the downsides of hard-line trade policy become apparent, we'll see a nasty search by President Trump and company for people to scapegoat.
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The President has taken to blaming the media for scaremongering, as well as hitting his favorite scapegoat, the Federal Reserve, over what he believes are too-high interest rates.
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France's most recent ambassador to the United States said Trump is looking for a scapegoat: Trump needed a narrative to exonerate his administration from any responsibility in the crisis.
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Since well before the war ended, ARVN soldiers were made an easy and ready scapegoat for America's losses, a stereotype that found its way into academia and popular culture.
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As Mr. Carter became the national scapegoat, the qualities that once made him the antidote to Richard Nixon — his piety, simplicity, openness, gentleness — could now be coded as impotence.
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Although outraged, the mother of one of the children believes it&aposs not enough or fair to simply "scapegoat&apos the teacher for "a system that is clearly broken.
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Mr. Falk said in an email Friday evening that he had been "astonished by the furor caused by the report," and that Ms. Khalaf had been made a scapegoat.
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And whenever he can find a convenient scapegoat — most often American Indians — Jackson will point toward it, something that ends in tragic consequences for an entire race of people.
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A former Fox News executive sued 21st Century Fox on Tuesday, accusing the company of making him a scapegoat in an effort to battle negative publicity about sexual misconduct.
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When U.S. stocks posted their worst December since the Great Depression, traders put plenty of the blame on actions by the Federal Reserve and that other favorite scapegoat, computerized trading.
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Our artists, technicians, and innovators deserve respect for their remarkable contributions to filmed entertainment, and should not be presented as the all-too-convenient scapegoat in service for a laugh.
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The case has divided Israel, with many citizens, right-wing politicians and some celebrities rallying behind Azaria, saying he is being made a scapegoat and should be let off lightly.
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But what we must not do is scapegoat an already vulnerable population to shift the conversation away from other factors -- such as improved regulation of firearms -- that we can change.
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These are just a few strategies Muslim Americans and their allies can take advantage of to protect themselves and stop the pattern of becoming a political scapegoat each election cycle.
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He has been retweeting his Opta stats but the country expect more than they witnessed on Saturday and he will be the prime scapegoat in the event of early elimination.
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Oh, and Oliver wants to use Simon as a scapegoat for the plan to use Tegan's ID card to access the Antares files, even though it could get Simon deported.
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But when he claims to be fighting an establishment in October 2016, the arguments sound more conspiratorial and like an effort by someone who is losing to find a scapegoat.
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That's another strike against her in southwest Virginia; the region is desperately seeking a scapegoat for its problems, and the Obama's new environmental regulations are another nail in coal's coffin.
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Tehran expressed concern over the May attacks and said the footage released after the latest ones by the United States military proved nothing and Iran was being made a scapegoat.
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There is hope, with a dispatched Outsider and an Abbey thusly robbed of its convenient scapegoat, for a world with a different, and hopefully more egalitarian power structures in place.
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Mercury retrograde, the phenomenon in which Mercury appears to change the direction of its orbit, has become the number-one scapegoat for general life chaos among the horoscope-reading set.
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But the Prime Minister, who is seen as weak and responsible for Russia's economic woes, is an altogether easier target and provides the Kremlin with a ready scapegoat if necessary.
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The centerpiece of this new narrative was the controversial gay propaganda law, passed in 2013 in what many believe was an attempt to find a domestic scapegoat for Russian frustrations.
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If I can give her whatever extra tools she needs to feel comfortable to take the extra time to prepare to return to sex, I'm fine to be the scapegoat.
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He and other serial human rights abusers scapegoat Israel, and ensure that the Council is so hyper-focused on the Jewish state that it cannot properly address humanitarian issues elsewhere.
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"Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz is an easy scapegoat for each campaign who has complaints about how their own campaigns are being run or the traction that they're not getting," she added.
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The Cuba embargo didn't end the Castro regime; it fueled anti-American sentiment, handing the Castros an easy scapegoat for all the country's problems — thereby improving the government's own popularity.
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In Mr. Ostrovsky's book, the West plays a minor role — as a utopia for liberal intellectuals, a scapegoat for Vladimir V. Putin or a place of exile for fallen oligarchs.
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But they are still instructive: Like all good propaganda, they tap into existing prejudices and polarizations, spreading fact-free messages that both scapegoat marginalized communities and amplify the fear factor.
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Progressives and immigrant rights groups have decried Trump's immigration rhetoric as a naked ploy to scapegoat immigrants in order to whip up his base to save Republican majorities in Congress.
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We believe that these charges represent no less than a miscarriage of justice, and we are confident that this attempt to make a scapegoat out of our client will fail.
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The scapegoat for the Bulls' ceaseless doctor appointments, hard-driving coach Tom Thibodeau, was out the door after a second-round playoff exit against James and the Cavaliers last spring.
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Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world In recent weeks, several high-profile incidents have been blamed on infrastructural elements of an increasingly frequent scapegoat: the internet.
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But where similarly neglected Rust Belt communities turned to Trump this year, residents along the border mobilized to fight the candidate who seemed to scapegoat their region without understanding it.
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As the White House attempts to shift attention away from calls for gun control after the Parkland shooting, the Trump administration has turned to an obvious scapegoat: violent video games.
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It should stop berating the nuclear deal, which gave Iranians hope and deprives the regime of a convenient scapegoat (it could always say times were hard because of Western sanctions).
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Appealing to prayer buys López Obrador time as well as an easy scapegoat – what he refers to as his "adversaries" that must be fought with prayer – for the impending crisis.
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Then there is Trump himself -- a man who resists being managed at all costs and who, when something goes wrong, immediately looks for a scapegoat on which to blame things.
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Maybe that's partly because I'm a son of a refugee, or maybe it just seems unfair to scapegoat people who are powerless and struggling, or maybe it just seems hypocritical.
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He also claimed that Daewoo was a scapegoat for the government, forced to dissolve a chaebol to show its resolve to reform big businesses in return for the I.M.F. bailout.
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What stands out, instead, is the invention of a new scapegoat, along with a new way to rail against the "elite" liberal cities who also give sanctuary to the undocumented.
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But Clinton and her supporters can scapegoat Comey for her loss only by ignoring the existence of the private email server — and the impossible circumstances that Comey found himself in.
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It's not difficult to believe that the magazine's editors would make Buck a scapegoat (she was given no further assignments, and her contract wasn't renewed), but her defense seems flimsy.
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At every council session, when these and other dictatorships scapegoat Israel under a discriminatory agenda item — in which the world's democracies refuse to participate — HRW and Amnesty join the jackals.
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Guzman's lawyers have portrayed their client as a scapegoat for what they have called Sinaloa's real leader, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who also faces U.S. charges but remains at large.
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Sixers fans lookin' to use Kendall Jenner as a scapegoat better check the facts -- Ben Simmons' boo is actually GOOD LUCK for Philly ... so says team co-owner Michael Rubin!!
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By Tuesday morning, he started sending off a series of bitter, petulant tweets that made clear that he could not accept his loss and was looking for a scapegoat to kill.
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It is easier to scapegoat a CIA director than an FBI director because he knows less about you, and the rapid turnover of CIA directors since the 1970s speaks for itself.
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In his opening statement, Lichtman tried to paint Guzmán as a scapegoat, alleging that bribes to high-ranking Mexican officials had kept the real leaders of the cartel free from custody.
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"How does Apple make money from Apple Pay?" by Wigley & Company "How does Apple make money from Apple Pay?" by Wigley & Company Hardware, another scapegoat, has also had a minimal impact.
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On a personal and judicial level, this rush to scapegoat a potential domestic violence victim disturbs me greatly, and it reveals our society's shallow understanding of the complex dynamics of abuse.
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Mallya's lawyers argue that he is being used as a scapegoat by Indian politicians of all stripes to deflect public anger at the accumulation of bad debts by state-owned banks.
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"It is personal when the incoming head of state and others that surround him demonize and scapegoat and pit one group against one another for a political objective," said de León.
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Cory Doctorow, a special advisor to the EFF, told me that companies are using right to repair as a scapegoat for generally bad security practices across the internet-connected appliances sector.
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"Trump belongs to these people that we also have here in Europe, who have a scapegoat for all issues but never have a concrete solution," Schulz told French television i-Tele.
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People had to fight for our ideas to be heard, for our positions of authority within the group, for not being a scapegoat, for being near where the decisions were made.
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He kind of used it as a scapegoat for his own troubles, and tried to deflect any criticisms of his own rule, any legal troubles that he had even back then.
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You can use the tech industry as a scapegoat for an election result you didn't like, or for driving your favorite bike shop out of business, but I'm not buying it.
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Dealing with Trump is a fraught endeavor for any politician, but especially so for someone like Ryan, who is in the bull's-eye if Trump is looking for a new scapegoat.
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Sensible, effective gun control laws that do not discriminate against or scapegoat those of us in the disability community are what is needed to address gun violence and prevent mass shootings.
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As part of a request for new legal representation separate from the university, Briles said Baylor had used him as a scapegoat for its failings in handling allegations of sexual assault.
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What is ironic in the world today is that conspiracy theorists in different societies are obsessed with the same scapegoat — globalization — but interpret it as a conspiracy only against their side.
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"They feel left behind and they're looking for a scapegoat and now they've found one in the refugees, who they think are getting all the money that they lack," he said.
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Between the lines: As Axios' Dan Primack notes, Trump's repeated digs at the Fed could be his way of setting up a scapegoat in the event that the economy turns south.
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" Government investigators, added Mr. Vostrikov, "will find a scapegoat, and the issue will be done with, but the threats — incompetence, widespread corruption, alcoholism and total degradation of society — will go nowhere.
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While conservative elites may have changed their tune about the existence and severity of the crisis, they have not ceased searching for a scapegoat against which to turn their credulous followers.
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"As I directed the jury who convicted you in this trail, you are not to be made a scapegoat for any failings or perceived failings of the Catholic Church," Kidd said.
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As my neighbors were regularly oppressed, they failed to consider the role of the wealthy and found the easy scapegoat: those they didn't understand and those who were different from them.
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They've had a lot of practice and they have effectively boxed themselves into a scapegoat strategy that capitalizes on — instead of improving — the suffering of many of their most loyal supporters.
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Word of the Day : someone who is punished for the errors of others _________ The word scapegoat has appeared in 119 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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"The instinct to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people," said the Arizona lawmaker, who announced he would not run for re-election next year.
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"The doctor has been made into a scapegoat for the larger crisis in the region," said Solangi, who says that there were no infected drips or syringes found in his client's clinic.
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It would be unfortunate for He to be turned into some kind of scapegoat—a convenient pawn for the government and its officials to defer responsibility for underlying systemic and regulatory issues.
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I was a scapegoat for a bunch of inaccurate bullshit about how they feel like women and people of color and trans people are trying to take their games away or something.
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The issue with domestic violence in Australia does not fall solely in the lap of the justice system, or the police, or any other issue scapegoat we can palm it off on.
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The Australian judges said Pell should not be made a "scapegoat for any perceived failings of the Catholic church nor for any failure in relation to child sexual abuse by other clergy".
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The critique of the art system has often been done from a neo-conceptual standpoint, but rarely from a painting standpoint, since painting has been the standard scapegoat of the conceptual critique.
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In seeking to scapegoat China as a means to deal with other challenges, the leaders of the three largest economies in the euro zone are in danger of making an historic mistake.
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Perhaps the biggest lesson of Mr Greenspan's slide from being the "maestro" of the 1990s to the scapegoat of today is that the forces generating monetary and financial instability are immensely powerful.
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This is the famous "you broke it, you bought it" problem—the law became the scapegoat for any number of problems in the healthcare system, regardless of whether they predated its enactment.
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Guards who don't force their man to fight over a screen, or let him sag down to the edge of the paint without worry, are an easy scapegoat for a struggling offense.
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"I think Shannon is stressed out about it, I mean it's always easy to have a scapegoat, it's always easy to point fingers and easy to point blame," Dodd told the outlet.
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Without the EU as whipping boy and scapegoat, there will be no end of blame and no shortage of candidates to be saddled with it: anyone and everyone except the Brexiteers themselves.
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Now, "everybody is looking for a scapegoat here, and they've got me at the cross hairs," Mr. Gatanas said, speaking on behalf of the family for the first time since the fire.
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"Read more: Narcissistic parents identify their children as either a favorite or a scapegoat, and they pit them against each otherIn response, Havrilesky said the in-laws were "truly terrible human beings.
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Or is Saudi Arabia, which has often supported Western-friendly autocrats over Islamists, merely a convenient scapegoat for extremism and terrorism with many complex causes — the United States's own actions among them?
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Thornton was the scapegoat once again, coming off his worst season with the Sharks (not counting the lockout-shortened season in 2013), in which he amassed just 65 points in 78 games.
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His defense team argue that he is being used as a scapegoat by Indian politicians of all stripes to deflect public anger at the accumulation of bad debts by state-owned banks.
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Sugar has emerged as the latest scapegoat in our ongoing search for a dietary silver bullet, an outcropping of "clean eating" movements popularized by celebs and lifestyle Instagrammers and even news outlets.
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"While I accept full responsibility for my actions, I feel it is unfair that I have been made the sole scapegoat for what happened," a tweet on the fake account said Tuesday.
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Malaysia's ethnic Chinese have long been a scapegoat for the Malay community, with UMNO leaders pointing to ethnic Chinese economic dominance to unite Malays and keep a firm grip on political power.
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However, great artists of anger have taught us how cathartic a rousing roar can be, especially when the object of rage is not a conjured scapegoat but a clear and present danger.
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Dr. Oz is doing a major eye roll at anyone who's using the coronavirus as a way to scapegoat Asian people and spew their xenophobia, 'cause he says we're better than that.
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As the immigration debate continues, I hope that our leaders in government avoid the age-old temptation to scapegoat the immigrant population, enacting symbolic reforms that are nonsensical, expensive and even inhumane.
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When we're fearful, we're vulnerable to politicians who play on our fears and scapegoat immigrants; in the fullness of time, we come to regret our xenophobic behavior and to appreciate the immigrants.
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Today I am a college president and a teacher at a school known for student activism, and I've noticed a new trope on the scene with rising potential as a national scapegoat.
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Eisenberg is at the center of that review, according to The New York Times, which reported that some aides are worried that the mission of the review is to find a scapegoat.
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While they used to blame the ex-president for all their problems — pointing the finger at a Democratic White House for their inability to pass GOP priorities — their beloved scapegoat is gone.
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Since he announced his candidacy in 2015, Mr. Trump has treated Mexico as a proxy and scapegoat, particularly on immigration and trade, two issues on which he promised a radical policy shift.
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Violence in Myanmar is very specifically tied to a military regime that uses a militant strain of Theravada Buddhism as a pretext to scapegoat the Rohingya as the root of the country's problems.
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Globalisation has borne the brunt thus far, but populist movements are searching for a new scapegoat: the left seeks one that puts profit before morality, the right one that puts liberalism before tradition.
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But wait, there's more: Gemini's ruling planet and our favorite astrological scapegoat, Mercury, will enter its final retrograde period of 2017 this Sunday, December 3, the very same day as the full moon.
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The Daoguang emperor, whose fight against opium led to the first war, was a jittery conservative—"an anxious ruler…searching for a scapegoat for the country's many troubles", as Ms Lovell puts it.
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In her over a decade-long career, Swift has been a receptacle for both sides, becoming an emblem for the right and a scapegoat — a representation of white women's complicity — for the left.
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The workshop also explains that consent should not be assumed and cannot be given when drunk (or high), and that alcohol should not be used as a scapegoat in cases of sexual misconduct.
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The reason for persecution: As Rohingya expert Azeem Ibrahim told New York Magazine, the Rohingya were chosen as a scapegoat for the failure of the (then) Burmese government's communist reforms during the 1960s.
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"We believe that Mr. Liang has been sacrificed as a scapegoat in a highly politicized criminal justice system, resulting from recent intensifying police-community relations," coalition spokesman Jack Ouyang said in a statement.
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No, Trump's win is the result of many things, and we would do better to try to unpack them with precision and a view to complexity rather than scapegoat Clinton or her campaign.
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However, while serving in that role, he was illegitimately made the scapegoat in the Odebrecht scandal and is now under house arrest on trumped-up charges by Colombia's Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez.
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If it's important to you that America's political leaders scapegoat immigrants and Muslims, or valorize coal and manufacturing jobs, then you'll blind yourself to a tremendous amount of wrongdoing to keep Trump empowered.
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Participants will pursue the mystery throughout the galleries, with the option of putting a new spin on the story: It's up to them to decide if Mary was a scapegoat or a killer.
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Even if Trump loses the presidency, the role he has won in the collective American imagination — as the ultimate embodiment of racism — means he also stands to be the ultimate scapegoat and distraction.
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Kaspersky has strongly denied allegations about the safety of its products or ties to the Russian government, saying it has become a scapegoat in the midst of rising tensions between Washington and Moscow.
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The case frustrated many in the Asian-American community who felt that Mr. Liang, who is Chinese-American, was used as a scapegoat during a national debate about the policing of black communities.
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This demagoguing of the scapegoat du jour is what gives right-wing populism its current potency, especially in Europe, which is facing more severe economic, immigration and terrorism problems than the United States.
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Heidi and Spencer Pratt were leaving Matsuhisa Wednesday night in Bev Hills when we asked the couple about her saying her husband's an easy scapegoat on "The Hills: New Beginnings" ... especially for Brody.
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Bots have served the function of being an easy, morally simple scapegoat for Ticketmaster, lawmakers, artists, promoters, and venues to cover up more serious problems with the way tickets are sold to fans.
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If you're one of the black folks who's worried about our people's economic prospects in this country, remember that the key isn't finding a scapegoat or a shortcut to the problem at hand.
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In fact, it's more popular with Republicans than with Democrats — in part because many liberals feel that conservatives scapegoat the mentally ill after mass shootings to distract from the issue of gun violence.
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The political drama — about a scientist who tries to save his town from water pollution, only to wind up as a scapegoat — is being revived in several new productions across the United States.
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At a time of turmoil within the administration, officials allied with each faction are leaking to the press in an effort to scapegoat their rivals and ensure their own allies don't take blame.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — When the first winds of a revolution blew across Sudan last winter, threatening to upend decades of corrupt and destructive rule, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir needed to find a scapegoat.
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" In a statement, Ackerman said, "Once again the National Rifle Association leadership's new lawsuit is another reckless attempt to scapegoat Ackerman McQueen for the N.R.A.'s own breakdown in governance, compliance and leadership.
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In "Scapegoat: The Lonesome Death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann," published in 103, Mr. Scaduto, aided by his experience covering crime for The Post, built a convincing case that justice had not been served.
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Can he really protect himself from Robert Mueller's inquiry — which is zooming back into the foreground now that the midterms are done — by getting rid of Sessions, his favorite scapegoat and punching bag?
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They acknowledge that financial hardship affects the daily lives of working-class Americans, but they add that how they respond is based on cultural beliefs that may lead them to scapegoat minority groups.
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Related: Amid the debate, The Times learned that the White House was opening an internal review of aides' actions around President Trump's Ukraine call, which some fear is a hunt for a scapegoat.
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The Spanish authorities raise a fuss, and the British high command, needing a scapegoat to appease their allies against Bonaparte, dispatch a vicious corporal named Calley (no coincidence, surely) to quietly eliminate Lacroix.
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Maybe, he suggested, someone had used his information and signature from that transaction to steal his identity and make him as a scapegoat for Zaron and the three other firms he now controlled.
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"We saw the ultimate consequence of a society encouraged to hate, scapegoat and fear minorities laid bare in the horrific military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar," said Shetty.
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So of course these issues are now being floated in the press by the investors as they try and make Adam the scapegoat, the fall person for what's just been an overvalued company.
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Animal activists don't want to just put forward one scary image that can be blamed on a scapegoat slaughterhouse worker — they need to demonstrate that the abuses are endemic, ignored, and even encouraged.
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Mr. Liang, they argued, was a scapegoat to placate a black community angered by the death of Eric Garner and other fatalities where the officers involved, most of them white, had gone unpunished.
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Higher wages are not a foolproof safeguard against destructive politics, but it does become harder to scapegoat various boogeymen, from job-stealing immigrants to the idle poor, when living standards are rising rapidly.
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" He tells us the name of "the young black man" (Dick Rowland) who was used as a scapegoat, as well as the "real cause" of the riots: "the black community's continually accumulating wealth.
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Gooi Soon Seng, Siti Aisyah's lawyer, has argued the killing was politically motivated, with key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting his client was being made a scapegoat.
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The basest human instincts seek an excuse to act on existing desires, or a scapegoat to blame — even if that blame makes no logical sense, or the resulting actions compromise our own moral values.
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Islam has become the perfect scapegoat for French politicians who claim Muslims' incompatibility with "our" ways -- no matter how unclear these are -- became no longer a question of race but of culture and religion.
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But Breslaw writes that Pariss was filled with a "grim determination to find a 'scapegoat for his daughter's troubles,'" and beat her harshly out of anger that she refused to admit to the accusations.
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Many have rallied around the officer, who is Chinese-American, describing him as a scapegoat who was targeted at a time when there is a roiling national debate about the policing of black neighborhoods.
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Wolves are featured prominently throughout the story: as the initial scapegoat, in the form of a mask the Sloanes both wear, as the focus of Russell's sympathies, and as an ongoing threat and metaphor.
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Football fans are often "treated as a scapegoat" for anti-LGBT+ sentiment in the men's game, when evidence suggests they are "overwhelmingly supportive," said Rory Magrath, an expert on football at England's Solent University.
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The incident and its aftermath raise questions about the connection between homelessness and the criminal justice system in America—and whether Eleby is being used as a scapegoat for a transportation crisis affecting millions.
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That, too, isn't a very difficult question to answer: Anyone who can exterminate Muslims on an industrial scale and scapegoat the Jews for his misfortunes is going to be a friend to the jackbooted.
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But before you turn yours into a scapegoat for all that goes wrong in your life, hear this: Blaming everything on her may be more comfortable, but the real problem could actually be you.
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One problem with democracy is the propensity of the majority to scapegoat and discriminate against the minority, which is part of the reason the judicial branch exists -- to make sure rights are enjoyed equally.
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The email, which comes as Trump has stepped up his efforts to scapegoat China for coronavirus, sought to attack Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for "siding with the Chinese" amid disinformation about the virus.
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Kogan did not respond to an emailed request to comment on his work in St Petersburg, but told the BBC on Wednesday he was being made a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
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He saw himself as a convenient scapegoat, a way for Oakland to deflect blame and scrutiny from its own failings and keep the public's hunger for justice and punishment trained on Almena and him.
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" But it is also in the best interests of Facebook: such a tribunal would be a convenient scapegoat for contentious decisions: "Don't like how we dealt with the takedown of the Alex Jones pages?
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"The problem is much larger than Terry, who has become the scapegoat, and the quickest means for this industry to absolve itself from any responsibility," said David Bonnouvrier, the co-founder of DNA Models.
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But instead aides have fixated on one another: Advisers began a fact-finding review that some fear is a hunt for a scapegoat, according to White House aides and other people familiar with it.
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Girard spent the later decades of his career elaborating how, in myth and ancient history, human societies purchased peace and stability by displacing the bad blood of mimetic rivalry into violence against a scapegoat.
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In an interview with Gloria, a history professor who has offered to tell his story unfiltered, he describes himself, inevitably, as a scapegoat for his employers and the national security apparatus that directed them.
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He has created an altogether new piece titled "Scapegoat," a 40-foot-long hobby horse with a giant goat's head, a parody of virility and monuments to political leaders typically sited in public spaces.
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A hatred that still, after centuries, exerts its powerful allure during periods of political and economic unrest, when the angry, the confused, the shortchanged and the scared look for simple explanations and a scapegoat.
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If Riyadh finds a scapegoat and absolves senior members of the royal family over the disappearance of The Washington Post columnist in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, Trump may accept it.
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He denies all wrongdoing and his defense team argue that he is being used as a scapegoat by Indian politicians to deflect public anger at the accumulation of bad debts by state-owned banks.
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The head of the nation's largest biotech lobby declared Wednesday he is fighting back in the raging debate over drug prices that he said has turned his industry into "an easy scapegoat" in 2016.
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Once the inspiration for utopian dreams of infinite libraries and global connectivity, the internet has seemingly become, over the past year, a universal scapegoat: the cause of almost every social ill that confronts us.
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Coffee is undeniably more scapegoat than villain here, especially when it comes to real estate — housing prices are growing twice as fast as wages — but my demographic has still been stereotyped as financially irresponsible.
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Ubiquitous and almost infinitely flexible, it's the perfect scapegoat, yet betrays not only a mind numbingly ill-informed reading of the Frankfurt School's output, but also a staggeringly stupid grasp of the historical process.
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He insulted me, talked about me behind my back, used me as a scapegoat for the problems he was having with the rest of his staff, and in fact, completely derailed my reputation and career.
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Looking back more than a decade later, the former head of Countrywide Financial, whose sprawling subprime loan business symbolized the financial recklessness of the real estate bubble, said he's become a convenient scapegoat without justification.
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Even if Daryl hadn't known that it was Carol that Richard intended to use as a scapegoat, there's no way he would've condemned an innocent person to die as a pawn in the soldier's game.
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Given the controversy around the release of Joker and mental illness repeatedly being used as a political scapegoat for mass shootings, it's unfortunate that Batwoman couldn't take a more nuanced, original approach to the issue.
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Our national dialogue is poisoned with right-wing fueled lies and distortions that enable millions to unjustifiably trust their worst instincts and scapegoat people of color, low-income workers, immigrant families and children, and others.
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But if you scapegoat fast food for being the devil without paying attention to the other things around it that are extremely problematic in the same or similar ways, you're not really solving any problems.
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He was the one scapegoat they would use in perpetuity to prevent any third-party candidate who posed a threat to their hegemonic behavior by building electoral reforms and helping to launch a progressive base.
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The sudden prospect of billions of dollars in fines from the scandal involving the 1MDB Malaysian sovereign-wealth fund has some traders worried that the bank has found a useful scapegoat to scrimp on bonuses.
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Not the lives of people like Hillary Clinton and James Comey, who are powerful and wealthy in their own rights, but nobodies, working in the government or the press corps, whom Trump decides to scapegoat.
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At the last Tory conference, members were promised a crackdown on middle-class drug users—a group some critics have argued is just a scapegoat for a government that has no handle on drugs policy.
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There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal -- but mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
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Eden made Nasser "a scapegoat for all his problems: the sinking empire, the sluggish economy, the collapse of his reputation within his party and his dwindling popularity in the country at large," von Tunzelmann writes.
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And this in the end is all that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the highest office in the land, has had to offer America: his shallow, manipulative, self-important, scapegoat-seeking form of rage.
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From the scapegoat politics and lies that paved the way for the Brexit vote, to the wave of hate Trump rode into the White House, this year was one where previously infallible-seeming sentiments collapsed.
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Why it matters: Turkey was already bracing for economic turbulence, but President Trump's decision to apply sanctions over the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson has accelerated the crisis, and provided Erdogan with a scapegoat.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has rejected U.S. criticism of its efforts to fight terrorism, saying it should not be made a scapegoat for the failure of the U.S. military to win the war in Afghanistan.
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European lawmakers reacted with disbelief on Thursday to President Donald Trump's travel ban saying that the White House was simply looking for a scapegoat to deflect criticism from its own poor response to the crisis.
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Would the truth about my brother's autism and sister-in-law's cerebral palsy highlight my understanding of parental sacrifice and lifelong commitment, or would it be twisted into a convenient scapegoat for my unconventional stance?
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In a stunning claim, they said Mr. Zambada worked for years to scapegoat Mr. Guzmán, plotting a vast conspiracy with "crooked" American drug agents and compromised Mexican officials, including the country's "current and former" presidents.
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The step may not be enough to quell the anger of the parents and their supporters, and some suggested in comments on social media that the young teacher would become a scapegoat for broader failings.
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That Mr. Timberlake was deemed fit for this rehabilitation has less to do with contrition on his part than the presumption that whiteness is resilient armor, and also the convenience of having a nonwhite scapegoat.
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Just like members of historical fascist parties, the "purebloods" who become "Death Eaters," or wizarding terrorists, blame their loss of magical power and status on a scapegoat: supposedly lesser-born wizards with non-magical ancestry.
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For these women, of whom I am one, gender and class trumped race because there was no need for a scapegoat, no anger to be exploited and no poke in the eye for the establishment.
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We're told Bush is upset because he feels like a scapegoat ... no one at NBC had a problem with him until the footage leaked, and when NBC had a PR problem they just cut him loose.
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At the end of the day, success against combating the coronavirus "must be clearly the success of the central government; if not, someone very much at the top will have to be the scapegoat," said Stanzel.
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Five sources familiar with the thinking inside the company told BuzzFeed News that many employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for the myriad complex factors that led to 2016's unexpected election result.
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Since returning to Texas in 1980, Wright has lived in Austin, the state capital that serves as a scapegoat for state lawmakers, who routinely attack the city in showy attempts to establish their conservative bona fides.
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Examine your life and make sure that hating on your co-worker's overly chipper moods or habit of talking about her wedding planning is just a convenient scapegoat to avoid addressing your frustration with something bigger.
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One of Guzman's lawyers, Jeffrey Lichtman, told jurors in his opening statement that Ismael Zambada, who remains at large, actually controlled the cartel, and Guzman was a scapegoat framed with the help of corrupt Mexican officials.
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His high status and role in the nuclear talks surely made him an easy scapegoat for the failed Vietnam summit — though losing one's top place in North Korea's cabal is far preferable to banishment and torture.
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To scapegoat the few women in the party—who were, by the way, all excluded from the working group that crafted the legislation—shows that the GOP's gender imbalance is more than just an optics problem.
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If the Trump era endures beyond Trump himself, its enablers may one day seek to absolve themselves, of different but analogous sins, using the Obama years as a scapegoat, the way American exceptionalists once used Reconstruction.
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Moscow (CNN)Two prominent Russian politicians dismissed news that Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, with one saying the former national security adviser is a scapegoat in an attack against President Donald Trump.
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John Dean, the White House counsel who feared he would be used as a scapegoat for Watergate and was eventually fired by former President Nixon, said Saturday that he thought McGahn was doing the right thing.
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Instead of taking responsibility, Trump and his aides have dodged and deflected, first blaming Democrats for the policy (which they had nothing to do with) and now pinning the problem on a new scapegoat: The parents.
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Trumpism, by contrast, is an anger-driven, conspiracy-fueled, scapegoat-manipulating, ideology-free movement dedicated to the elevation by any means of one man, portrayed as a savior, to the most powerful office in the world.
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Before Hamm's Taylor can go into detail about this call, however, Rudy Giuliani (played by Kate McKinnon) appears, announcing plans to fake his own death should the president try to make him a Ukraine scandal scapegoat.
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" In an interview on Sunday, Cardinal Cupich said: "I think it is wrong to scapegoat gays and homosexuals as though there is a greater likelihood that gay people are going to offend children than straight people.
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" Previously, Almena had told an NBC morning show that he was "incredibly sorry," while his attorneys had said the charges were a miscarriage of justice and an "attempt to make a scapegoat out of our client.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Russia is being made a scapegoat for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and questioned the objectivity of the investigations into the 2014 disaster.
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The fight with Trump has given Erdoğan a useful scapegoat for Turkey's economic troubles, though the root causes of the volatility — increased inflation and an overheating borrow-and-spend economy — have little to do with Trump.
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But prosecutors told the jury that the two had extensive text and email conversations about WikiLeaks and that Stone used Credico as a scapegoat to shield his real back channel, a conspiracy theorist named Jerome Corsi.
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What he's doing now is using a scapegoat that he knows will work with his base -- bad local government in an overwhelmingly Democratic city -- to get out from under something that was fundamentally unworkable -- and unpopular!
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Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu also demanded a report from the justice minister, Florin Iordache, on his conduct in the fiasco, a move that led many to believe that Mr. Iordache was being measured as a scapegoat.
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Jane Poe, the pseudonym of a 17-year old girl who crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, and who is a victim of rape and became pregnant, is also the GOP's immigration and anti-choice scapegoat.
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Defense lawyer Cedric Mifsud told reporters this his client and Lifeline appeared to be a "scapegoat" for a wider squabbling by European Union countries over how to manage the flood of migrants to Europe&aposs southern shores.
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Even though an investigation by Malaysian police found no evidence that Zaharie was suffering any personal or financial stresses at the time, his sister says that he remains a "scapegoat" and that she has to defend him.
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That's what Tree does in the first film: She discovers that it's her roommate Lori (Ruby Modine) who has it out for her, and uses a serial killer named John Tombs (Rob Mello) as the perfect scapegoat.
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BUT THEY DID NOT DENIGRATE PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T DEMORALIZE PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T SCAPEGOAT PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T STORM AT PEOPLE, THEY WORKED WITH PEOPLE AND THEY COMPROMISED AND THEY COLLABORATED TO DO THE BEST THING FOR THE PEOPLE.
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This latest move for IP addresses and other online information about protesters isn't a one-time misjudgment; it's part of a broad effort to squelch opposition and scapegoat minority groups in a bid to please the President.
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And with both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton retired from public life, Pelosi has become Republicans' scapegoat of choice, the Democratic politician most likely to be used in attack ads designed to rile up the conservative faithful.
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"His value set is much too narrow and self-serving, and I think it's deliberately designed to appeal to the legitimate frustrations of a lot of working-class people by finding a scapegoat, the 'other,' " Biden added.
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As with Donald Trump in America, hatemongering is on the rise around the world, as authoritarian leaders and right-wing nationalist groups target the immigrant, the gay man or the minority citizen as a scapegoat for frustrations.
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"It's evident that the Indian government does not have a solution to a very serious and systemic problem in the country, and is using adult sites like ours as a scapegoat," Price said in a press release.
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ALREADY FURIOUS The USDA is a natural scapegoat and a topic of conspiracy theories among farmers suspicious of its sprawling bureaucracy, career employees and its research who sometimes conflicts with what they see on their own farms.
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After repeatedly blaming "law enforcement and the intelligence community" for discrepancies in the handling of Porter's security clearance, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders named a new scapegoat on Tuesday: the White House Personnel Security Office.
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Joan Miralles, the president of Habtur, an association that represents homeowners who rent to tourists, said local politicians have made Airbnb the scapegoat for their failure to control the tourism boom and to build more affordable housing.
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Matt Wrack, head of the Fire Brigades Union which represents rank-and-file firefighters, said Cotton should not be made a scapegoat when the Grenfell fire was a result of multiple long-term failings by successive governments.
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"Every president, when convenient, has used the Federal Reserve as a scapegoat," said Edwin Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who was assistant secretary of the treasury for international affairs under Clinton.
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As ever, those who oppose any discussion about gun reform as the obvious way to curb gun deaths have trotted out their favorite scapegoat: "the mentally disturbed," as the President tweeted early the morning after the shooting.
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They really ought to pull the IPO off the table and start telling their side of the story, but I do not like how this founder is being made the scapegoat for the mistakes of the investors.
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"I will no longer stand for being a scapegoat for his incompetence and inability to do his job properly," Ozil said, claiming that Grindel had made "unforgivable and unforgettable" comments about immigrants and Muslims in the past.
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As frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don't look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background.
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I had known, from my parents' experiences and my own research, that anti-Semitism was a powerful force with an extensive history, shaped largely by the way Jews' self-contained communities made them easy to scapegoat and stigmatize.
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"We saw the ultimate consequence of a society encouraged to hate, scapegoat and fear minorities laid bare in the horrific military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar," said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty.
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" Biden went on to label recent anti-immigrant sentiment seen in the U.S. as a "scapegoat" for individuals unable to find work in the U.S. "They're the reason I can't compete, that's why I don't have a job.
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"As always, Italy needs to find a scapegoat," Senese told reporters, adding that his client had waited for word of his fate alone outside the prison gates rather than stay at home with his family in southern Italy.
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Mr Peña's use of a scapegoat does not answer the most pressing questions he faces: how to avoid irrelevance in the final two years of his term and prepare his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the next election.
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Haspel's progressive critics are treating her unfairly, using her as a scapegoat for policies around interrogation techniques that weren't under her control and were backed by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which operated above her pay grade.
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That is why it is so troublesome that on issue after issue, our community seems to constantly be placed in the crosshairs of politicians who would scapegoat Latinos for political gain — both on the state and federal levels.
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"They are just using this as a way to scapegoat and attack the immigration system, this particular incident, when there's no demonstrated connection between cutting back on the family-based system and protecting our national security," Chen said.
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The broadside was interpreted by many on Capitol Hill as an effort by Trump to make Ryan a scapegoat should the GOP lose its House majority next week, though Ryan's allies and Republican strategists scoffed at the notion.
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"Trade agreements have become a scapegoat for much of what else is going on in the economy, a vessel into which people pour their legitimate economic anxieties that are largely caused by other factors," Froman said on Thursday.
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And in an attempt to point the finger in any direction but his own, he tends to seek out a scapegoat and then play on extant fears of the other to sow the idea among the American public.
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"I don't know where someone draws the line on externalizing the blame on a substance," Verbora said, noting that a defence like Brown's seems like a potential slippery slope for using drugs as a scapegoat for criminal behaviour.
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"His value set is much too narrow and self-serving, and I think it's deliberately designed to appeal to the legitimate frustrations of a lot of working-class people by finding a scapegoat, the 'other,'" Mr. Biden said.
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But in part because of rising school segregation, many whites have failed to develop personal relationships with Mexican-Americans, African-Americans and Muslims in integrated schools, which made it easier for Mr. Trump to successfully scapegoat these populations.
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Russia is being made a scapegoat for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and questioned the objectivity of the investigations into the 2014 disaster.
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"There's a big political campaign going on, and we've been chosen as the scapegoat to focus on by the ruling party," said Ola Kaczorek, co-president of Love Does Not Exclude, a group that campaigns for marriage equality.
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Most crucial in a hostile climate, the party's language should stick with its manifesto promise that Labour "will not scapegoat migrants nor blame them for economic failures" — and sound less like Mr. Corbyn's recent comments about foreign workers.
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"Blaming the Chinese for the change in tone from North Korea strikes me as trying to find a Chinese scapegoat for a summit failure," said Douglas H. Paal, a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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The first overall pick in the 2003 N.H.L. draft, Fleury has frequently been a scapegoat for Pittsburgh's disappointing early eliminations, most notably a six-game loss to the Philadelphia Flyers in 2012 in which he posted a woeful .
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While it has become politically expedient to malign and scapegoat immigrants, Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers across the country recognize that finding a way to excise them systematically from payrolls would have a crippling effect on several industries.
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No one is better at generating clicks and ratings than Trump, and he has spent the first six months of his presidency at war with the American press, martyring himself so that his base has an easy scapegoat.
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"The consequences of this 'strategy' will be to give a new generation of Iranians ample reasons to distrust the United States and provide Iranian leadership with a scapegoat for their corruption and bad economic policies," the organization added.
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Rehab for son: $130,000Party for son's 21st birthday last year: $40,000Medical Bills after son knocks his father unconscious and uses "alcoholism" as scapegoat: $10,000Son acting like a victim on social media on father's day: Priceless I'm out 🎤 drop!
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