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If Finkelstein were to apply his logic to Lee Atwater's Willie Horton strategy, he'd have to write, "Not race but crime served as the prime scapegoat of George Bush's 1988 campaign."
Mike Males, the author of The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents , tends to be overzealous when he argues that adults attack kids as a way of coping with their own problems, but he has a point.
And so we still scapegoat RN for all the sins of the era to avoid having to ask tough questions about what really happened to Indochina, and to America, when Hanoi and the Khmer Rouge were permitted to have their way with people whom we'd pledged to protect (and almost succeeded in protecting).
According to Wolf she embodies the nascent sexuality that pubescent girls are trained to fear and loathe, so we turn her into a scapegoat.
Scapegoat , on the other hand, means `one who bears the blame for others'; it is a political word that carries with it a certain nobility and martyrdom that fall guy doesn't imply.