One of the most harmful psychological phenomena in out time is scapegoating.
When confronted with evil or culpability we switch the blame onto a scapegoat.
Usually some outsider or minority group.
Rene Girard called it the scapegoating mechanism.
In our time there are three scapegoats:
Gays and lesbians and trans-gender people.
Liberals and Socialists.
And immigrants.
This is perpetuated in the media.
And it is used for political purposes.
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