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Bail reform and charitable bail funds are an easy scapegoat, all this focus on organizations that help low-income people for free … versus an industry that profits $ 2 billion a year from the two-tier system of justice that bail creates. – Camilo Ramirez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color. what I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience. – Reginald Ellis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Biden administration has completely failed to protect our borders, and now it's trying to find a scapegoat, mayorkas should be the one to resign. – Tim Burchett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Backstage is hell. Dancers damage their legs when sets and staircases fall over, we must not blame Yevgeny or find a scapegoat. – Nikolai Tsiskardze	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
People are frustrated with the pandemic, including high unemployment, and want to scapegoat someone. – Karthick Ramakrishnan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I feel guilty about that, i was protecting someone else. And he [Mahdi] ended up taking the fall for something he didn’t end up doing… I was young at the time. I had a lot of people in my ear, close family friends, closer than Mahdi. He ended up becoming the scapegoat. – Shire Ali	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Obviously the more, the better. But we've had extraordinary insight into this topic for many months, much more than has been declassified. Pretending we didn't is political theater and a classic example of a politician trying to buy time by using the IC as a scapegoat. – National Intelligence John Ratcliffe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This year has seen a significant rise in digital authoritarianism in India... and Twitter has been made into a scapegoat to send a message to other companies. – Jit Singh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism. – Yaron Brook	added by Normando 2 years ago
The city needs a scapegoat for why they botched the vaccine effort, they probably think they're embarrassed because a 22-year-old did a better job than they did. – Andrei Doroshin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
(The government) are making police the scapegoat and creating a situation that is becoming unbearable for everyone who lives here. So that's one of the reasons we have joined the strike, losing a bit of money now is not such a problem,(compared) with losing everything that the freedom of Hong Kong used to stand for. – Mark Schmidt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The doctor has been made into a scapegoat for the larger crisis in the region, my opinion is that the work he has done has been done according to law. The case against him can not be proved. – Masood Solangi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Salvini's intentions are ideological and electorally motivated, unfortunately people fall for it and the immigrant becomes the scapegoat. We need civil disobedience and it's important for secular and religious institutions to open their doors to welcome these homeless migrants. – Father Massimo Biancalani	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The salmon population is in great decline and recreational, commercial and tribal fishermen are looking at sea lions as a scapegoat. – Chris Joyce	Found on CNN 5 years ago
During these times of uncertainty, it’s always tempting for politicians for their own gain and for people in power to try and see if they can divide people, scapegoat folks, turn them on each other. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The policy (Parente) put in place was the scapegoat of this whole crisis, the pressure on him was enormous. – Castello Branco	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They need to have a scapegoat, they can draw no connection to my client, none, and they’ve tried. – Bryan Hershman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I will not allow Bridget Anne Kelly to be the scapegoat in this case, and I look very much forward to the appeal. – Bridget Anne Kelly	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The NSPV notes that the political government is looking for a scapegoat in connection with the attacks in Zaventem, as a trade union we can only be outraged about this state of affairs. [We are] heartbroken to establish that police would be pilloried without any kind of defense. – The Belgian police union	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have had some clients with staff resistant to being a senior manager, worried they are going to be kept awake at night about what their team is doing, and if something goes wrong, will they be the scapegoat. – Sarah Henchoz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don't look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background, we can't afford to go down that path. It won't deliver the economy we want, or the security we want, but most of all, it contradicts everything that makes us the envy of the world. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They are trying to ferret out information from the midlevel employees who may know what happened but are fearful of being made a scapegoat. – Peter Henning	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Clearly there are problems at NOAA and NWS, but Mr. Jiron should not be the scapegoat for NOAA's broader problems. – Matthew Kaiser	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After three years of (HP CEO) Meg Whitman's stonewalling, is this it?, hP's claim is finally laid bare for what it is -- a desperate search for a scapegoat for its own errors and incompetence. – Mike Lynch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Bail reform and charitable bail funds are an easy scapegoat, all this focus on organizations that help low-income people for free … versus an industry that profits $ 2 billion a year from the two-tier system of justice that bail creates.

– Camilo Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color. what I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience.

– Reginald Ellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Biden administration has completely failed to protect our borders, and now it's trying to find a scapegoat, mayorkas should be the one to resign.

– Tim Burchett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Backstage is hell. Dancers damage their legs when sets and staircases fall over, we must not blame Yevgeny or find a scapegoat.

– Nikolai Tsiskardze

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are frustrated with the pandemic, including high unemployment, and want to scapegoat someone.

– Karthick Ramakrishnan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I feel guilty about that, i was protecting someone else. And he [Mahdi] ended up taking the fall for something he didn’t end up doing… I was young at the time. I had a lot of people in my ear, close family friends, closer than Mahdi. He ended up becoming the scapegoat.

– Shire Ali

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Obviously the more, the better. But we've had extraordinary insight into this topic for many months, much more than has been declassified. Pretending we didn't is political theater and a classic example of a politician trying to buy time by using the IC as a scapegoat.

– National Intelligence John Ratcliffe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This year has seen a significant rise in digital authoritarianism in India... and Twitter has been made into a scapegoat to send a message to other companies.

– Jit Singh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

– Yaron Brook

added by Normando
2 years ago

The city needs a scapegoat for why they botched the vaccine effort, they probably think they're embarrassed because a 22-year-old did a better job than they did.

– Andrei Doroshin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

(The government) are making police the scapegoat and creating a situation that is becoming unbearable for everyone who lives here. So that's one of the reasons we have joined the strike, losing a bit of money now is not such a problem,(compared) with losing everything that the freedom of Hong Kong used to stand for.

– Mark Schmidt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The doctor has been made into a scapegoat for the larger crisis in the region, my opinion is that the work he has done has been done according to law. The case against him can not be proved.

– Masood Solangi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Salvini's intentions are ideological and electorally motivated, unfortunately people fall for it and the immigrant becomes the scapegoat. We need civil disobedience and it's important for secular and religious institutions to open their doors to welcome these homeless migrants.

– Father Massimo Biancalani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The salmon population is in great decline and recreational, commercial and tribal fishermen are looking at sea lions as a scapegoat.

– Chris Joyce

Found on CNN
5 years ago

During these times of uncertainty, it’s always tempting for politicians for their own gain and for people in power to try and see if they can divide people, scapegoat folks, turn them on each other.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The policy (Parente) put in place was the scapegoat of this whole crisis, the pressure on him was enormous.

– Castello Branco

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They need to have a scapegoat, they can draw no connection to my client, none, and they’ve tried.

– Bryan Hershman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I will not allow Bridget Anne Kelly to be the scapegoat in this case, and I look very much forward to the appeal.

– Bridget Anne Kelly

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The NSPV notes that the political government is looking for a scapegoat in connection with the attacks in Zaventem, as a trade union we can only be outraged about this state of affairs. [We are] heartbroken to establish that police would be pilloried without any kind of defense.

– The Belgian police union

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I have had some clients with staff resistant to being a senior manager, worried they are going to be kept awake at night about what their team is doing, and if something goes wrong, will they be the scapegoat.

– Sarah Henchoz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don't look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background, we can't afford to go down that path. It won't deliver the economy we want, or the security we want, but most of all, it contradicts everything that makes us the envy of the world.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They are trying to ferret out information from the midlevel employees who may know what happened but are fearful of being made a scapegoat.

– Peter Henning

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Clearly there are problems at NOAA and NWS, but Mr. Jiron should not be the scapegoat for NOAA's broader problems.

– Matthew Kaiser

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After three years of (HP CEO) Meg Whitman's stonewalling, is this it?, hP's claim is finally laid bare for what it is -- a desperate search for a scapegoat for its own errors and incompetence.

– Mike Lynch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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