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Scapegoating
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Scapegoating is a propaganda technique that has been used throughout history as a means for people to move blame and responsibility away from themselves by attributing it to others (or to an object or event). A scapegoat is the person or group made to bear the blame for or punished for those errors committed by others.
Related words and phrases: whipping boy, witchhunt, killing the messenger
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- Propaganda
- propaganda techniques
- distraction (reference to distraction by scapegoating)
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- See also Wikipedia reference on scapegoating
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