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What is the meaning of scapegoat ? & what do people gain from scapegoating ?

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a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it

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