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Through his lawyers Sokol said: It is alarming that Mr Buffett would be advised to so completely flip-flop and resort to transparent scapegoatism.
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GOP, the party of bigotry, racial profiling, hateful rhetoric, scapegoatism, but little or no meaningful action.
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The barbs between the two men, for years close colleagues, intensified further Saturday when Mr. Sokol's lawyer released a scathing statement after the meeting, calling Mr. Buffett's stance a "flip flop and resort to transparent scapegoatism."
Buffett Calls Sokol Stock Purchases 'Inexcusable' Serena Ng 2011
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The second coming of Christ could not sway them, they are so blinded by hatred and scapegoatism.
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This scapegoatism is exactly analagous to that which was errantly directed at Audi 20 years ago, BTW, in eerily similar circumstances including reporting media hellbent on hyperbolic exploitation of circumstances, with less than a full grasp of the laws of physics.
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Personally, I feel all of these things might be even more fundamentally rooted in a process/principle we would call scapegoatism.
Why Israel's Offensive Must Be Considered an Attempt at Genocide 2009
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To place the blame on those most victimized by these very practices is scapegoatism of the worst kind and borders on bigotry.
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Teach me how to avoid the mistakes of the intelligence community (not ours) and create the perception of scapegoatism in reference to Iraq vis a vis Iran and Learning from OUR mistakes.
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And on Twitter we read: "Lack of education, scapegoatism and being dumb enough to allow oneself to be brainwashed causes racism."
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This includes release of emotional tension by displacing it into symbolic enemies (e.g., scapegoatism).
IDEOLOGY MOSTAFA REJAI 1968
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