scapegoating

noun

scapegoating

noun

1

The act of making somebody a scapegoat.

Nazi persecution of Jews, as with other scapegoatings, was focused, systematic and directly lethal. Other oppressions have been more long-term and uneven […]1989, Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain, page 224:

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