Meanings (ES + gloss)
usar de chivo expiatorio
To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.
They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
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