a scapegoat is the person or group everyone blames for a problem that has much bigger causes.
imagine a company is failing because of years of bad management, poor decisions, and shrinking sales. instead of admitting any of that, leadership fires one employee and basically says, “this was the problem.”
societies do the same thing.
when things get difficult, blaming one outsider, minority, immigrant group, political enemy, or individual is psychologically much easier than dealing with a complicated system.
sometimes finding someone to blame is easier than finding out what actually went wrong.
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