This was the result of the "class struggle," one of the main theses of Marxist demagoguery, designed to create scapegoats and divert attention from the failure of the system.

(County officials say they didn't want to create scapegoats.)

"Yet we must be careful not to create scapegoats."

Wars create unexpected heroes and scapegoats and will affect the Russian elections.

The insinuations served both to perpetuate a suspicion of foreigners in the population, and to create scapegoats for Moscow's own problems.

How you respond to that ends up setting a tone of leadership, or a sense that you're trying to escape, you're trying to run away, you're trying to create scapegoats.

It also easily creates scapegoats based on skin color or ethnic background.

It is nevertheless important that we really do decide on the basis of the facts and do not fly in the face of reality by creating scapegoats, as it were.

The superstitions held fast, gripped by the downtrodden class as a means of creating scapegoats for their bad fortune.

Up the rhetoric against certain groups all the time but couch it in horrible moralistic language and always, always with just enough wiggle room to backpeddle and you create easy scapegoats.