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scape·goat·ing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "scapegoating":

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  1. President Barack Obama:

    I'm pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of Americans are looking for the kind of politics that does feed our hopes and not our fears, that does work together and doesn't try to divide us, that isn't looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating.

  2. George Clooney:

    The genesis of the screenplay [ came when ] I was watching a lot of [ Trump ] speeches on the campaign trail about building fences and scapegoating minorities, and I started looking around at other times in our history when we’ve unfortunately fallen back into these things, and I found this story that happened in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

  3. Corey Saylor:

    In the Jewish community, we know all too well what can happen when a particular religious group is singled out for stereotyping and scapegoating. We also know that this country must not give into fear by turning its back on its fundamental values, even at a time of great crisis. i am troubled, though, that someone who has so completely abandoned American values is polling so high.

  4. Phil Gim:

    Why we feel it's scapegoating is the fact that of all the police incidents, this one is clearly an accident.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    And his insults and his scapegoating and his horrible comments about people with disabilities and Latin Americans and immigrations and everybody – it was just so hard to understand, so the press didn’t do the job it should have. I didn’t do the job I should have. I think people were almost mesmerized by this display.


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