Scapegoating

Ever since the begging of time crime has always been a huge part of the human race. But as time seemed to go on not only did crime progress, it progressed in a way that was targeted towards specific groups of people. This type of crime is classified as a hate crime. A hate crime is defined as a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. In America and around…

The topic for this study is hate crime, and its impact on Canadian Muslim families. The hypothesis is that hate crime is having an effect on Muslim families, and recent events are acting as a catalyst. There exist numerous sub questions and propositions. What constitutes a hate crime, what do Muslim families think, does hate crime cause Muslim families to be more vigilant, is hate crime a predominant issue within Canada, does the ethnic background of the person have an effect? My proposition is…

Different Viewpoints on Immigration Frequent conflicts currently seen in America reflect back to the issues addressed by Bharati Mukherjee in her article “Two Ways to Belong in America”. Mukherjee describes the experience her sister, Mira Mukherjee, and she underwent when moving to America and the conflicts that occurred while living in the United States. The tension both sisters felt when moving to America are what newly immigrants face such as the transformation of life. During their…

nationalist values turned into extremist ones. Through the use of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler successfully utilized propaganda to convince German citizens that Germany’s economic downfall was the Jewish people’s fault. Hitler became dependent on Jewish scapegoating to run his campaign, and eventually adopted the belief that Germany should “free its sins” by killing off all of the Jewish citizens. This “cultural cleansing” is more commonly known as the Holocaust. It resulted in the…

afterward come into the camp. Do some research on scapegoats. Write an essay claiming that scapegoats play a useful role in society, using examples from history, current events, novels, and/or films. Or, if you prefer, argue the opposite – that scapegoating is so cruel and senseless that it must be condemned and eliminated. The short story The Lottery talks about a town that always have a lottery for the community every year. This lottery is not the kind of lottery you would win money or other…

how the Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 wasn’t influenced by religion, but how the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was. The Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 and the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 reflected the economic inequality of the colonial era through methods of scapegoating and large scale rebellions. The economic inequality during Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 caused blacks, slaves, and whites, for the first time, to fight alongside each other for a common goal. This was something that was largely unexpected due…

Children have the power to determine someone's fate in life. In 1692, children accused the innocent of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials and in 1984 children made accusations of sexual abuse. The innocent faced jail time and those accused of witchcraft were hung. The Fells Acre Day Care Center was a case similar to the Crucible where the innocent where accused, accusations were made with little to no evidence, and the innocent were killed. 1692 was one of the darkest years in U.S history…

If scapegoating isn't effective, then the conflict typically leads to violence. After battle, the leaders throw celebrations, commemorate days with holidays, hand out medals and positions to loyalists, and create statues and monuments as symbolism. Leaders have…

propaganda and censorship have been instrumental in capitalism and in government. Manipulative strategies have been used by the third reich and American Eagle alike. Scapegoating, through techniques like transfer and pinpointing, has always been there on the personal level and on the grander level, and its popularity will remain. Scapegoating is used because propaganda that promotes fear and blame towards a weakened minority will find more success in control than propaganda that doesn’t choose a…

Mark Taylor spends the entire book dealing with the issue of Lockdown America. Lockdown America re-encompasses issues like the over militarization of the police force as well as the mass incarceration of the American population specifically that of colored people. But this chapter more specifically deals with the dramatic action carried out through Jesus’ death, the political implications of His death, the powers of fear and fascination, and how governments will use it to control a population.…