Scapegoating

Scapegoating (social control)
ritual punishment of others carried out by a group

Etymology

Use of a goat, slaughtered for psychological reasons such as the assuaging of collective guilt or shame.

Psychology

Scapegoating has an important role in mass formation, as highlighted by Mattias Desmet. Its role in death denial is elucidated by Ernest Becker in Escape From Evil.

Selected examples

COVID-19

"Hunt for the non-vaccinated. There are 17 million more" on the front page of Maurizio Molinari's Repubblicca. He was one of hundreds of Bilderbergers or WEF GLT/YGL who collaborated on the COVID project.

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
Escape From Evil	“In times of peace, without an external enemy, the fear that feeds war tends to find its outlet within the society, in the hatred between classes and races, in the everyday violence of crime, of automobile accidents, and even the self-violence of suicide. War sucks much of this up into one fulcrum and shoots it outward to make an unknown enemy pay for our internal sins.”	Ernest Becker	1976
Joseph Goebbels	“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”	Joseph Goebbels
Immigrant	“I remain incensed at the success of the elite in conning the deprived that their poverty is caused by immigrants, whereas it is caused by massive inequality of wealth.”	Craig Murray	16 December 2018

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