#scapegoating

#scapegoating

We are scapegoating asylum seekers for the failures and political divisions caused by successive governments in the last 15 years the failures of successive governments to address wealth inequality, funding for education, the cost of living and primary healthcare and infrastructure. Every day I meet homeless people who have fallen through the cracks in our system. And yet in singling out asylum seekers we are laying the burden of society's problems on less than 1% of the UK population

In dysfunctional or abusive families, fixed family roles sustain dysfunction, allowing those with power to externalize blame onto a scapegoat, often a black sheep.

A common thread in the two shows below is how they nail the catharsis of placing blame. Be it baseless scapegoating or calling out the genuinely guilty...