English-Finnish translations for scapegoat

syntipukkiRocco Buttiglione oli syntipukki. Mr Buttiglione was the scapegoat. Emme voi hyväksyä sitä, että on olemassa vain yksi syntipukki, joka maksaisi kaikkien puolesta, vaikka tämä syntipukki onkin tyranni. We cannot allow one scapegoat to pay on behalf of everyone, even if that scapegoat is a butcher. Tämä on klassinen syntipukki-ilmiö. This is the classic scapegoat phenomenon.
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In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim

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