Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society--which is based on m...yths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement--will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That's where I reckon Santa Claus comes in To be our parents' pseudonymity... In Christmas giving, so they can escape The thanks and let him catch it as a scapegoat...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The guileless old scapegoat; For forty nights and days... Followed in Jesus' ways, Sure guard behind Him kept, Tears like a lover wept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and ...time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they... are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders' sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away ... is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have sp...ent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »