Scapegoating displaces anger and frustration onto vulnerable others, who are then persecuted.

Evidence

The Psychology of Scapegoating (Psychology Today)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Accusations of extreme wrongdoing can dehumanize scapegoats. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 82; Moral panics reflect deeper social tensions rather than real threats. — Moral Panic; Moral panics direct outrage at a single easily identified target when the real problems have more complex roots. — Challenging the Social Media Moral Panic: Preserving Free Expression under Hypertransparency (+15 more)

Related

• Islamophobia functions as scapegoating that diverts attention from capitalism’s failures. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The pandemic generated new Islamophobic scapegoating across countries #exemplifies (0.95)
• Crisis-time scapegoating of religious out-groups masks political and economic causes #expands (0.92)
• Islamophobia functions as scapegoating that diverts attention from capitalism’s failures. #exemplifies (0.90) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 40
• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #corroborates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101