What is scapegoating?

Scapegoating is similar to bullying, insofar as it is generally perpetrated by a coward, who is abusing some unfair advantage because they are afraid of a fair fight.

Scapegoating however is more than bullying, because the perpetrator has a goal. The scapegoater knows the victim is innocent, but is trying to frame the innocent person anyway and wants the victim to be harmed by gullible morons.

It is thus a moral attack by a bad person or persons, an attempt to cast blame onto the blameless. It is often a self-serving attempt to project, or transfer, guilt from the guilty onto the innocent.

The world is full of people who want to harm the innocent, putting forth the lie that they know the victim did something wrong when all the while they know the victim is innocent.

Scapegoating is a corrupt act by the corrupt. It is intentional moral fraud. It is the wicked accusing others of being wicked.

Scapegoating is of course perhaps most infamously performed by lazy and dirty cops, who pretend they have solved a crime when in truth they have not, by pinning the blame on anyone who looks guilty.

Scapegoating is also perpetrated by corrupt officials looking to escape prosecution for their own crimes by finding a fall-guy to take the blame.

Scapegoating is expected when bad things happen to bad people, whose first instinct is always to harm the innocent. So they pin the blame for a disaster on a passerby, a bystander, an outsider, a child, et cetera.

Or if the scapegoater is less confident, he or she blames someone closer: their spouse, their own child, their neighbor, or even a pet.

What is the accusation about?

The scapegoater accuses the innocent person of committing some offense, such as causing a bad event.

In scapegoating, the wicked accuses the innocent of a wicked act.

Examples of bad events:

How does the scapegoater manipulate?

The scapegoater may trick gullible morons into believing the innocent victim's guilt in a number of ways.

• Appeals to bigotry:
  • The accused looks different i.e. not one of us, therefore guilty.
  • The accused is known to be from a different social group, religion, politicial affiliation, etc.
  • The scapegoater slanders the victim as being secretly a member of some despised group e.g.
    • Homosexuals
    • A certain politician's supporters
    • White supremacist bogeymen
    • Communists.
• Use of logical fallacies.
  • Post hoc fallacy: One thing happened before another, therefore guilt.

The scapegoater promotes himself/herself as the hero who is bringing the (falsely accused) victim to justice on behalf of the group, knowing the victim is innocent, and perhaps scapegoater is in fact the guilty party.

How does the scapegoater select a victim?

Because scapegoating is a type of bullying and all bullies are cowards who are merely abusing an unfair advantage because they are afraid of a fair fight, the scapegoater/bully is compelled by knowledge of his or her inferiority and weak arguments to seek out as many unfair advantages as possible when selecting a scapegoat, such as:

• The victim is quite young and cannot comprehend why they are the focus of malicious attention by corrupt/degenerate adults.
• The victim is too old to defend himself/herself, as they have cognitive and health vulnerabilities.
• The victim has no one to come to his/her defense e.g. he or she is a neglected stepchild, an orphan, a transient, a minority.
• The victim has no idea how religions work, that some religions compel the guilty and corrupt to scapegoat the innocent and clean.
• The victim does not know the scapegoater and has no idea what the motive might be.
• The victim is the person who plans to hold the scapegoater accountable for his crimes e.g. a populist politician.
• The victim performs work that involves travel or relocation and the scapegoater plans to falsely accuses him/her of trying to escape.
• The victim is out of town (e.g. vacation) and the scapegoater plans to use this, so that when the victim returns they will be hit with a slew of accusations and false testimonies.
• The victim underwent a recent crisis (e.g. financial, health) and is vulnerable.
• The victim distrusts authorities e.g. thinks all cops are dirty cops, and won't seek their help.
• The victim is trapped (e.g. in a mortgage, in an HOA, in a marriage) and may feel compelled to falsely confess to a false accusation to minimize damage i.e. a plea bargain.
• The victim is new in town, new at work, new at school, therefore tackling many distracting life tasks while trying to avoid attention, and is therefore vulnerable.
• The victim is living in a dysfunctional community where neighbors don't help each other e.g. a dangerous ghetto, a suburb.
• The victim is living in a corrupt city or country where public officials can't be trusted and may actually target complainants for abuse.

Gullible morons

Scapegoating would not be possible without an audience of people who have some power to harm the falsely accused and innocent victim.

When the wicked person or group (the scapegoater) intentionally accuses an innocent person or group, it is done for an audience of reckless fools.

For these fools, the truth about the situation may be:

1. The mainstream media elites
2. Intolerant religious idiots with low IQs
3. Members of a political party

Types of scapegoating

Scapegoating of children

When youths are scapegoated, the scapegoater is often an adult who invokes the mantra that youths are out of control, therefore the kids are guilty. This routine accusation appeals to ageing narcissists who resent youths outshining them.

Youths are especially vulnerable because they are naive and trusting and are usually unequipped to deal with such highly abusive adults.

An infamous example from Pennsylvania is the mass incarceraton of teens for profit, which involved a corrupt judge sending thousands of kids of a privately-owned jail for long periods based on bogus infractions, so that the judge could allegedly receive a kickback for each:

• Pa. Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal

Scapegoating of foreigners

Foreigners are easy targets because they are outsiders, who may have poor language skills, lack of education, lack of familiarity with the culture or legal system, insecure employment, insecure housing etc.

The scapegoater typically exploits anti-foreigner sentiments and even a collective inferiority complex, such as locals' resentment of Americans.

An infamous example was when American Amanda Knox was scapegoated by police in Italy and falsely accused of murder:

• Man Convicted Of Killing Amanda Knox’s Roommate Released In Italy

Scapegoating by race or ethnicity

In this scenario, one or more racists or ethnocentric people (a euphemism for racist) scapegoat an innocent person or group of a different race or ethnicity, to punish them and achieve sadistic pleasure, as well as bolster the view in the minds of gullible morons that all people of said race/ethnicity are evil.

Jessie Smollett attempted to scapegoat white people by perpetrating a hoax racist attack:

• Jussie Smollett hoax proves White Privilege is a myth, say black conservatives

Scapegoating of entire nations

Entire nations are scapegoated both by nationalists and by globalists. Scapegoating of a nation is easy because nations are distant, they rarely fight back because of trash talk and, when there is language barrier, they may not immediately know they're being scapegoated.

In China, the USA is a frequent scapegoat:

• China Blames America for the Coronavirus Outbreak

The Victim(s)

Usually the scapegoater targets a person or group that is vulnerable or has some disadvantage.

In this sense, scapegoating is indeed a form of bullying i.e. the act of a coward exploiting an unfair advantage to avoid a fair fight.

The victim might be:

• Relatively powerless (such as a child or someone who's new to the area)
• Relatively distracted (such as a political rival in an upcoming election)
• Relatively uninformed (such as a youth or a foreigner)
• Generally distrusted (such as an outsider or a foreign nation),
• Generally disliked (the wrong race, the wrong gender, the wrong caste)
• Convenient (someone in the wrong place at the wrong time)
• A group's rival (a member of an opposing political party, opposing race, opposing gender)
• A personal rival (as when one woman accuses another of being seductive).

The scapegoater's motives

Scapegoaters may be motivated by various factors e.g.:

• The scapegoater can make a monetary profit by scapegoating the victim(s).
  • Example: The corrupt judge who sends 1000's of innocent teenagers to a privately-run prison in exchange for bribes.
• The scapegoater is a powerful politician acting against the public interest who needs to appear virtuous and creates a bogeyman to do so.
  • Example: The corrupt politicians who scapegoated reformist politicians while they themselves work to undermine democracy.
• The scapegoater is guilty of the exact offense that he is accusing the scapegoat of, and engages in scapegoating to appear morally upstanding when he is the opposite.
  • Example: A corrupt politican has ties to Russians and has taken bribes from them, so he preemptively accuses his opponent of having the same ties.
• The scapegoater is incompetent or lazy and blames a convenient innocent victim in order to claim a false success.
  • Example: The dirty cop finds a random black guy on the street to blame for some recent crime.
• The scapegoater seeks to can gain prestige (in the eyes of fellow scumbags) by scapegoating the victim(s).
  • Example: A racist accuses an innocent White person of some invented offense e.g. cultural appropriation, in order to brag about punishing them.
• The scapegoater is a bigot who hates specific groups and uses a tragedy to attack them.
  • Example: A Firestone tire explodes due to a manufacturing defect, but the resulting accident is claimed to be a punishment by some invented god e.g. because God hates fags.
• The scapegoater is simply a sociopath who enjoys manipulating gullible morons into thinking random people are guilty.
  • Example: Malicious girls convince superstitious adults that another woman is a witch who should be burned.
• The scapegoater is nursing an inferiority complex toward younger, smarter, prettier people or certain nationalities.
  • Example: A narcissistic teacher sees smart students or attractive students as a threat and attempts to insinuate such a student committed an invented moral offense e.g. accusing a pretty girl of being a hooker or accusing an attractive male of being gay.