Both Uses of
scapegoat
in
Obasan
- As long as we have politicians and leaders and media people who feast on people's fears, we'll continue making scapegoats.†
Chpt 7 *
- We are the billy goats and nanny goats and kids—all the scapegoats to appease this blindness.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(scapegoat) someone blamed or punished for the errors of otherseditor's notes: (editor's note: This expression comes from an ancient Jewish ritual in which the sins of the people were ritually transferred to a goat which was then driven into the desert away from the community.)