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The 34 pages that link to Scapegoating, each with the reason it gives.

• AntisemitismRelated: Jews have repeatedly been blamed for crises through scapegoating.

• Conspiracy theoryRelated: Conspiracy narratives can turn complex crises into accusations against a targeted group.

• IslamophobiaRelated: Muslims may be blamed collectively for violence or social change.

• Hate speechRelated: Hate speech often channels fear and frustration into blame against a targeted group.

• OtheringRelated: Othering can make a marked group a convenient target for collective blame.

• PrejudiceRelated: Blame directed at an out-group can express and intensify prejudice.

• DehumanizationRelated: Assigning collective blame can recast targets as threats whose mistreatment seems justified.

• RumorRelated: Rumors can direct fear and anger toward a targeted group.

• XenophobiaRelated: Foreign-born groups can be blamed for economic or social problems they did not cause.

• Right-wing populismRelated: Out-groups can be blamed for social change or insecurity, redirecting anger away from complex causes.

• Authoritarian personalityRelated: Displaced hostility can make minority groups targets for blame and punishment.

• Show trialRelated: A prosecution can cast a selected defendant as the cause of social or political crises.

• The CrucibleRelated: Salem’s authorities channel communal anxieties into blame directed at accused individuals.

• PogromRelated: Authorities and agitators could redirect public anger toward Jewish communities.

• Political extremismRelated: Extremist rhetoric often channels grievances by assigning collective blame to an out-group.

• Great Replacement conspiracy theoryRelated: The theory directs blame for social change toward immigrants and minority groups.

• Political purgeRelated: Leaders can use accusations against selected groups to justify repression and redirect blame.

• Anti-CatholicismRelated: Catholics have been blamed collectively for political crises, social change, and alleged moral decline.

• UltranationalismRelated: Ultranationalist leaders can blame internal minorities for national decline or hardship.

• Cultural Marxism conspiracy theoryRelated: The theory makes Marxists responsible for complex social changes and perceived cultural decline.

• HatredRelated: Redirected blame can focus diffuse anger into hostility toward a target.

• Anti-Chinese sentimentRelated: Economic downturns and disease fears have repeatedly been redirected toward Chinese communities.

• Anti-Polish sentimentRelated: Anti-Polish narratives have used Poles as convenient targets for political grievances.

• Anti-Romani sentimentRelated: Roma have repeatedly been blamed for social crises, making exclusion appear justified.

• AporophobiaRelated: Poor people may be blamed for social problems, reinforcing rejection.

• Gaëtan DugasRelated: Dugas became a human target for fear and anger about an epidemic with many causes.

• International Jewish conspiracyRelated: The theory redirects blame for crises toward Jews instead of examining their actual causes.

• Widow's BayRelated: Communities under pressure may direct fear toward convenient targets.

• Zionist Occupation GovernmentRelated: ZOG turns complex political grievances into accusations against Jews or Zionists.