Sentences with phrase «into scapegoats»

Basically, turning our enemies into scapegoats makes us feel more in control.

«Instead of focusing on and punishing owners who are irresponsible and criminals who use their dogs for illegal purposes, legislatures choose to place their focus on the dogs, making them into scapegoats.

The job also has a PR problem, McDiarmid says, with teachers too often turned into scapegoats by politicians, policymakers, foundations and the media.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, says that the government's plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal is part of a joined - up attack on workers» rights which is turning ordinary working people into scapegoats for the coalition's economic mismanagement.

Israel has turned into a scapegoat that apparently legitimizes anti-semitism and jew hatred.

It is easy to fall into this scapegoating, finger - pointing mentality and accuse others of doing it while I myself practice it toward them!

I love how you are getting into the scapegoating and Girardian memesis in understanding violence as our core problem.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).

What we are talking about is being part of a network of nations that respond with a human rights framework that actually upholds the dignity of these people, instead of falling into the scapegoating and the «othering» of people.

Ah, well, when you're into scapegoating, you accept that sacrifices must be made.

I think the marathon is turning into the scapegoat for the city.»

Still though, the firing looked like the Colts were making Hamilton into the scapegoat.

Certainly the university's efforts to turn Erickson into a scapegoat for the failure of your drug - testing policy is itself a plea of guilty to the most - dreaded charge a university administrator can face from the NCAA: «lack of institutional control.»

all season while we had ozil he has only been allowed to play in his main position 2 times once against villa and other against galetaseray and in this game we for the first time played with two natral wingers with ozil in the number 10 and a fast cf for the first time ever since ozil has been here and you all know the outcome, part from that wenger has shifted ozil out wide all season and turned him into a scapegoat for the media and fans but as soon as ozil gets injured the next game wenger plays with 2 natrual wingers and put wilshire in middle with cazorla, so the question is wernger trying to destroy ozil?

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Central banks in developed markets have been pulled into the political hot zone for the first time in decades, as politicians now scapegoat banks for domestic economic problems.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

Years from now when someone decides to use Athiests as the scapegoat what will you do???? Will you look back and say hey I tried to be civil or I tried to stop the hatred before it escalated into uncontrollable proportions or I tried to find a way to coincide?

21:4 - 9) There is transfer magic also in the idea of the scapegoat, by which the sins of the people were loaded onto a goat that was then sent off into the wilderness.

The priest was to lay his hands upon the scapegoat, symbolically passing all of Israel's sins upon the goat, and then the goat was to be sent away into the wilderness, where it (presumably) died, taking all the sins of Israel with it into the grave.

God knew that without the violence of the scapegoat mechanism, mankind would only spiral into ever - increasing violence, which ultimately would end in our complete destruction.

By teaching Israel about the scapegoat, and indeed, implanting the scapegoat mechanism into the hearts of people around the world, God was preparing people for the ultimate scapegoat of human history — Jesus Christ.

You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.

This is especially seen when we consider that much of the scapegoat imagery is carried over into the New Testament and applied to Jesus Christ on the cross.

Could it be that the scapegoat imagery of Leviticus 16 that God wasn't just telling Israel that their sins were carried away into the wilderness by a goat, but that He Himself was bearing their sin on His own being, so that they might be delivered from the ever - increasing spiral of violence that threatened to consume them?

Then, he sent the SCAPEGOAT off into the wilderness.

The killing of the scapegoat provides a means for the formation of a new social unanimity and cohesion, as acquisitive mimesis is transformed into conflictual mimesis, which is resolved by the destruction of someone arbitrarily designated as the cause of the conflict.

Kierkegaard's understanding of personality as a synthesis of opposing elements leads us to understand the concept of scapegoating in dialectical terms, in relation to the spheres of existence which humanity divides itself into.

He mentions scapegoats and means thereby humans, but of course the word originally referred to a live goat that was released to bear the sins of the Jewish people into the wilderness.

Hint: the whole cruxifixion think is nonsense, scapegoats are a way for cowards to not do the diligence of looking into real causes, and your god does not exist.

The only indication that this is «scapegoating» is reading it into the text (it seems to me, anyway).

After the scapegoat is released, the High Priest enters into the Tabernacle one more time, takes off his linen clothes, and puts back on his glorious clothes (Lev 16:23 - 24).

That is a pathetic attempt to stereotype and scapegoat all Christians into something you simply imagine.

Some reading about logic might cure you of your backward supersti - tions, but there isn't much hope for that since you seem to have bought into the silly dead - guy - on - a-stick scapegoat story hook line and sinker.

Perhaps our actual situation in the world is precarious enough to drive some people — especially those with extensive possessions to lose — into a defensive form of hysteria and a search for scapegoats.

Then the blame falls on the congregation and their «lack of faith» or some such scapegoat for the pastor's failed gaze into the crystal ball.

So to blame the «masculinity crisis» on the few women who have managed to ascend to significant leadership positions in the Church in recent years, especially when men continue to dominate the field, grossly overstates the amount of power women have over the institution and turns them into unnecessary scapegoats.

There is still a struggle, but it is not against each other, but against the forces which seek to drag us back into rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating violence.

God breaks the grip of scapegoating by stepping into the place of a victim, and by being a victim who can not be hidden or mythologized.

But then, that's the point of scapegoats: to take the sins of the wicked on their shoulders and be banished into the wilderness (or, since this is United, Sunderland).

He has turned into «The Scapegoat» for this season.

Not that we should read too much into Wednesday's match, given the weather conditions etc., but many have pointed to last season's capocannoniere, and would be Chelsea striker Edin Dzeko, as the scapegoat for Roma's struggles.

We believe that British society is being transformed into something bitter, paranoid and hateful - as all societies will be when they allow their baser instincts to prevail and scapegoat whole groups of people on the basis of their race or nationality.

But he has been defended by the prime minister, who has backed the Francis inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire's conclusion there should be no individual «scapegoats».

Nicholson's position was defended by Robert Francis» final report into the failings at Mid-Staffordshire, which said «scapegoats» should be avoided.

The naive counselor gets right into the thick of the deal, and finds himself in way over his head when the deal begins to turn sour, eventually becoming the scapegoat, leaving him to try to do the only thing he knows how to do — to negotiate a deal with those trying to kill him.

He's the scapegoat of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he's not a piece of shit so much as just pathetic and therefore the perfect — and last — receptacle into which the audience for stuff like this tosses their psychic rubbish.

Hirokazu Kore - eda Japanese master Hirokazu Kore - eda, beloved for his Ozu - ish family dramas, takes a hard - left turn into genre with this murder mystery about a defense attorney who believes his client is the scapegoat for an insidious conspiracy.

The film takes place in a dystopian Japanese city called Megasaki «20 years into the future,» where dogs have been scapegoated for carrying toxic diseases and relocated to a grim waste island, by fiat of the despotic, square - shouldered Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura, who helped conceive the story with Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman).

Pity the modern American classroom teacher: Not only is she the scapegoat du jour for everything that's wrong with education today, she is also responsible for finding a way to cram the fruits of that politicking into her lesson plans.

Damian Betebenner, a senior associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc. in Dover, N.H. who developed the SGP model in use in Massachusetts, added that «Unfortunately, the use of student percentiles has turned into a debate for scapegoating teachers for the ills.»