Sentences with phrase «scapegoats which»

[14] The individuals who make up the crowd require scapegoats which they can denounce and attack in their ongoing efforts in self - protection.
If Wenger does not sign anyone and keep the money intact, then OX will play and then if Arsenal perform badly, then he could be the scapegoat which will ruin his carrier for ever.

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The quality which makes them the scapegoats of Western history is the quality which makes them strangers in Western history — their devotion to their own cultural tradition under conditions of almost impossible hardship and the psychological traits which that devotion has established.
«I think they feel in Seattle they're the scapegoat every time there's an issue in the community and traffic,» said Sam Bailey, vice president of economic development at the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, which is managing the area's bid for Amazon's second headquarters.
According to its Indiegogo page, the Satanists have raised more than $ 16,000 toward their goal of $ 20,000 for the monument, which Greaves said would «be a historical marker commemorating the scapegoats, the marginalized, the demonized minority and the unjustly outcast.»
Yesterday we saw the first reason, that the Bible reveals mankind's destructive cycle of mimetic rivalry and the scapegoat mechanism by which we escape the cycle.
The Bible was not written primarily to reveal God to us, but was written to reveal the same thing that Jesus revealed on the cross, which is that we scapegoat people in the name of God.
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 goat which was selected by lot was offered to God as a burnt offering, while the one which was rejected became the scapegoat (Lev 16:7 - 10).
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.
Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??
From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.
From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.
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.
The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.
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).
This always leads to violence which can only be quelled by us (with our mixed up thinking) by the sacrifice of a scapegoat.
Yes, which is exactly what every group always says whenever they carry out scapegoating genocide.
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).
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.
Sacks argues that in the history of the West, anti-Semitism is a key symptom of a culture in crisis, looking for a scapegoat on which to blame its troubles.
If the scapegoat is relatively innocent (or at least, not completely guilty of everything for which they are charged), why does their death create peace between two warring sides?
But we also have to carry on plugging away at the truth: which is that in a society in which child sex abuse is a major problem, our clergy have collectively become 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.
The sin of accusation and blame, which leads to scapegoating violence and murder.
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 man is awesome in management and commercial sector but is made a scapegoat for footballing failures which arent his best skill.
Let Arsene go and all hell breaks will loose — suddenly the perfect scapegoat is gone and unhappy fans won't see a new manager as a common denominator as they see Arsene now but the man who sits on piles of cash disinterested in results on the pitch which is the only thing most of football fans care about.
Guess we all looking for a scapegoat, unfortunately Bayern showed their class.In our entire team, almost every single player gave a stray pass — which u can not afford to do when versing a class team..
Holt perhaps overstates this claim in his copy — he writes: «Cleverley was made the scapegoatwhich is both stronger and more exclusive than the quote above — but it's true that Cleverley does get a lot of stick from United (and occasionally England) fans for all manner of reasons, and certainly more than most of his clubmates.
Like Sanchez, Ramsey has spent the last few days not just coming to terms with having a free summer next year but being made the scapegoat for Wales» defeat to the Republic of Ireland, something which often happens at the Emirates.
But I remember seeing people single him out still, which I think is just sad really, just try to be honest dudes and not to scapegoat for the sake of sparing some fav's or having a go.
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.
Convinced that coach Pep Guardiola was making him the scapegoat for Bayern Munich's shock 3 - 1 Champions League defeat in Porto — a game in which the Bavarians had to do without the injured Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Bastian Schweinsteiger and David Alaba — Müller - Wohlfahrt and his assistants headed straight for the exit and while some think Pep has triumphed in this particular turf war, the battle, in truth, is far from won.
History will show whether Derby are a club leading the charge to bring transparency to the world of football transfers or simply trying to find a scapegoat on which to pin the blame for failures of corporate governance.
Since changing the formation, underperforming players have stepped up a level which includes the scapegoat Ramsey but other countless examples such as Xhaka, Holding, Bellerin and Monreal.
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.
She situated the current moment in the post-2008 economic crash which «led to the scapegoating of the other» and the current Trump / Brexit moment where «immigration has taken on an unprecedented salience».
«His general approach is to scapegoat localities for high local property taxes, which are in fact principally driven by schools and Medicaid,» McMahon said.
Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»
Nicholson's position was defended by Robert Francis» final report into the failings at Mid-Staffordshire, which said «scapegoats» should be avoided.
«It is counter-productive for politicians and civil servants to engage in mutual scapegoating based on half - truths and myths which ignore what is really happening,» the IfG, headed by Peter Riddell, said.
«I was made a scapegoat by ECHDC [Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp.] and ESD [Empire State Development Corp.] leaders — notably EHDC Board President Thomas Dee and ESD Regional Chairman Sam Hoyt, appointees of Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who, after tarnishing my family's reputation, subsequently gave the contract to a company whose executives have donated generously to Gov. Cuomo and others throughout this region,» DiPizio said in a Feb. 11 letter she wrote to Bharara, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said Mayor Bill de Blasio should not use state law as a «scapegoat» for not releasing the disciplinary records of an officer involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, which the city is fighting in court not to release.
Shadow Hone Secretary Yvette Cooper's call for more border guards and tough new benefit curbs for migrants only incites UKIP and their allies in the Tory Party to ratchet the debate further to the right — fuelling a toxic discourse in which politicians outbid each other in scapegoat demagogy.
De León considers himself a «scapegoat,» and says the audit that caused his demise was prompted by envious rivals at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT), which shares a building with ICMAT.
Actually, Dr. McDougall thinks the recomendation from the medical estalishment to lower salt intake to decrease blood pressure and to improve heart disease, is used as a «scapegoat» to avoid revealing the real culprit of disease — high dietary fat intake, which most people seem incapable of doing (almost universally).
In addition, everyone's favorite scapegoat, gluten, which 20 percent of Americans now try to avoid, is also often called inflammatory, though there's no evidence that gluten causes problems in people without celiac disease, says Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson Lisa Cimperman, MS, RD, LD, clinical dietitian at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.
Most distracting are repeated scenes in which Meyer retreats to his father's home, sometimes inexplicably, to hammer out his thoughts on first his responsibility to report the Iowa's condition and then his growing astonishment at the Navy's dedication to scapegoating an innocent man.
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