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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