Scapegoating

Scapegoating (social control)

Psychology

Scapegoating has an important role in mass formation, as highlighted by Mattias Desmet.

Selected examples

COVID-19

"Hunt for the non-vaccinated. There are 17 million more" on the front page of Maurizio Molinari's Repubblicca

Establishment figures explicitly scapegoated those who declined the COVID-19 jabs.

Unfounded scientific claims were made about the efficacy of face masks, demanding that people wear them continuously when in public.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Enemy image	“[P]rojective identification ... in which all bad is located in another person who is then annihilated, only evacuates these feelings temporarily, and is ultimately destined to fail.”	Anna Motz	2008
Joseph Goebbels	“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”	Joseph Goebbels
Human sacrifice	“While documentation of the widespread existence of Satanic human sacrifice cults is lacking, evidence of other forms of systematic human sacrifice is available. Two examples in modern history are the Catholic Inquisition, a human sacrifice cult of a religious-theological nature, and the Third Reich, a human sacrifice cult of a military-political nature. (In calling the Inquisition and the Third Reich cults, I am using the word in a broad, informal, and unscholarly sense, to mean an organized group driven by a well-elaborated theological doctrine, which for the Nazis was Aryan racial mysticism.) The fact that the Catholic Inquisition and the Third Reich were both run by middle-class, Caucasian, educated individuals from Judaeo-Christian cultures suggests that it is psychologically possible for ordinary middle-class citizens to be perpetrating such crimes in North America today, especially given the high level of violence in contemporary Western societies.”	Colin Ross	1995

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