scapegoat
[ˈskāpˌɡōt]
NOUN
a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
synonyms:
whipping boy · victim · Aunt Sally · goat · fall guy · patsy
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
VERB
make a scapegoat of.
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Scapegoat, Hebrew saʿir la-ʿAzaʾzel, (“goat for Azazel”), in the Yom Kippur ritual described in the Torah (Leviticus 16:8–10), goat ritually burdened with the sins of the Jewish people. The scapegoat was sent into the wilderness for Azazel, possibly for the purpose of placating that evil spirit, while a separate goat was slain as an offering to God. By extension, a scapegoat has come to mean any group or individual that innocently bears the blame of others.
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What makes one susceptible to being a scapegoat?
Why are some people targeted for taking the blame for
things they had no part in creating?
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