Sentences with phrase «scapegoated with»

So many victimized people are scapegoated with mental illness.
Prof. Mills was scapegoated with same fake stories and false accusation that caused the good Prof unbearable pain till he said goodbye.
Jews were scapegoated with the claim that they were the ones who had scapegoated Jesus.
The Welsh winger is reportedly unsettled at the Bernabeu after becoming a scapegoat with Real Madrid fans for a spell since new year which has seen the club knocked off top spot in La Liga, lose 4 - 0 to bitter rivals Atletico Madrid and almost knocked out of the Champions League after a 4 - 3 home loss to Schalke.
«If we want to have top notch people entering the profession of teaching, we have to stop making teacher's the scapegoat with high - stakes testing.

Not exact matches

In time, and with practice, we can stop looking around the office for sacrificial lambs and scapegoats, and follow Harry Truman's lead.
«I feel like legislating pedestrian distraction might give aggressive drivers a scapegoat to blame fatalities on the road with, and I'm not excited about that aspect.»
Working class whites have been disenfranchised (along with all working class, of course) by automation and outsourcing, and Trump offers them a scapegoat (Immigrants and «liberals who gave their jobs away»).
Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.
Yes, #HimStill As the White House scrambles to deal with the radioactive fallout of the Rob Porter scandal, the search for a scapegoat is leading to a dizzying round of finger pointing.
The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.
If you want to be «real» and have substance, it starts with thinking on your own and taking responsibility for your actions, not allowing the sainted scarecrow / scapegoat to take it for you
If the couple wants to talk about their sexual topics, be it hetero or homo, they will do that, and they must be treated with real, humble love and compassion, and not with brimstones and fire, and not making scapegoats out of them in front of the congregation.
Flood the TV with images of White and Black together... thats fine... as long as we continue the theme of scapegoating brown people.
Scapegoating is absurd to begin with and Christianity is based on it.
With Catholics only numbering 270,000 or 0.2 percent of the country's 156 million population he described how they were often scapegoats.
In my Index, I list 41 religious conflicts compared with 27 oppressions under «Communism», 24 under Colonialism, 2 under «Railroads» and 2 under «Scapegoats».
It is quite obviously the expedient of a man who has been driven to seeking a scapegoat, and has found with relief the most famous scapegoat in European history, the Jewish people.»
Instead of dealing with the real underlying issues, we find ourselves looking for another enemy, another scapegoat, another target for our anger and unresolved grievances.
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.
A theology of the Old Testament revelation that does not specifically deal with this grave and somber fact misses from the very start one of the most central questions...» (Must There be Scapegoats?
Like gods they flood The plain with scalding words And scapegoat plots.
See Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, 58; The Scapegoat, 173; To Double Business Bound, 26 - 27; and p. xi of the Foreword to Robert Hamerton - Kelly, The Gospel and the Sacred: «Mimetic theory is too realistic and commonsensical to be confused with one more nihilistic stepchild of German idealism.
Wide - ranging and insightful, Marsden's essay touches on everything from original sin and scapegoating to American optimism and the «culture of «whatever»» while arguing with Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Wolfe, Richard Rorty and others along the way.
Are you familiar with Rene Girard's book, The Scapegoat?
We pick up with this idea today, showing how Jesus also was a divine scapegoat.
He wasn't a scapegoat, cruelly put to death, without his consent, with no divine plan being in place that the whole Trinity didn't willingly agree on.
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.
They are reading the Bible with renewed eyes and are seeing that the violence of the Old Testament text is actually this genocidal, murderous, scapegoating violence.
This always leads to violence which can only be quelled by us (with our mixed up thinking) by the sacrifice of a scapegoat.
And if you read the story of the good samaritan with this in mind, you'll see, that when the Levite and the Priest don't help the poor guy, it could have to do a lot with scapegoating, because, ya know, he is a samaritan, he had it comming...
sure feels like scapegoating — if you disagree with my premise, you are «one of those.»
And if you read the story of the good Samaritan with this in mind, you can easy see, that is not only a story about how to act but also a critique on the scapegoating what the Levit and the Priest was probably doing, when they let the poor guy rot to death («ya know, it would make me unclean to help, the guy probably had it coming, I better serve the Lord»).
Cf. Rene Girard's treatment of the «violent unammity» with which the scapegoat, prirnarily Oedipus himself, is destroyed by the society that benefits from his departure (Girard, Violence, 68 - 88).
By letting us shed His blood, Jesus revealed that all such scapegoating sacrificial rituals have nothing whatsoever to do with God and originate instead within the hearts of mankind.
«Scapegoat Time,» wrote Bob Herbert of the New York Times, while Anna Quindlen evoked the left's favorite image for Republicans with «The Politics of meanness.»
Details of the postexilic observance wanting here may be filled in from the tractate «Yoma» in the Mishnah, where the prayer of the priest, pronounced with his two hands upon the scapegoat, is given as follows:
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.
What's up with the scapegoat non-sense anyway?
But the structures of MacArthur's consciousness — which was built over a long period of his life with guns and swords — were full of ruling ideologies, which wrongfully justified using the oppressed people as scapegoats for what he supposed to be justice, peace, and order.
Guns should not be a scapegoat, but maybe if we keep guns around, we can shoot the scapegoat and deal with the real issues that cause violence, issues such as broken families, class warfare, racism, drug and alcohol addictions, violence in movies and video games, and moral issues such as envy, jealousy, greed, and rage.
Blaming gun or video games or your personal choice of scapegoat has nothing to do with logic (as they fall flat in the face of facts) and everything to do with emotion.
Actually, I tend to think about all of the people who use the religion as a scapegoat for everything that they believe is wrong with the world and how it convenient politically acceptable way to allow themselves to avoid real solutions to problems.
We are amusing ourselves to death and we like to scapegoat Christians for what is wrong with society.
Boyd wrote a post about Girard's Scapegoat Theory in which he said his critics misunderstood him, and he went on to point out his issues with Mimetic Theory.
The averted sacrifice of Isaac; the prophets» condemnation of scapegoating the widow, the weak or the foreigner; the story of Job; the Psalms» obsession with the innocent victim of collective violence; the passion narratives» transparent account of Jesus» death; the confessions of a new community that grew up in solidarity around the risen crucified victim: all these follow a constant thread.
Mertesacker, ah the BFG, we all love the Big man but I simply don't think he has the ability for these big games, in many ways he has become the Arsenal scapegoat, something I don't agree with.
he doesn't have to beat koeman, this was the perfect scapegoat for the everton dutch coach to cover over the cracks with just 2 win out of 9.
but i think we are using giroud as a scapegoat for our shortcomings, its not like we defend too well either.we might get a wc striker but how many points will he be worth if we let in cheap goals?i know we got a good gk to help with that, but he alone cant do much..
For those looking for a scapegoat, like you, and the dozens who recced you, that is the problem with Arsenal fanz.
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