Bouvard on Girardian Scapegoating and Political Justice

Watching Ilhan Omar stripped of her fraudulently obtained privileges one by one like some disgraced general stripped of his medals will be a glorious spectacle and it is essential that all attempts to portray her as a sympathetic victim be ridiculed mercilessly. Watch out for

Girardians in particular here. Yes, the scapegoat can be guilty but the guilty is not necessarily a scapegoat.

@truepeers Yes, but, at the same time, what does guilt justify? "How much"?

@truepeers A bit of all three, but add some rage converting into celebration finally settling down in a sense of satisfaction and a lot of range from her dwindling supporters.

@truepeers Part of the problem with Girard, I think, is that ihe wouldn't care to admit that a justice system, founded to replace lynching, can solve the problem of scapegoating. If that's true you don't need Jesus, so he may admit it's better but it's still, "ultimately," scapegoating.

@redwhiteblue173 About this in particular? Why the rush? Let's enjoy while we can.

@truepeers Right, but that means he couldn't really acknowledge the juridical as a genuine, if fragile, solution, since it competes with his own. I can work without or without the hypothesis of a reenergized Christianity.

@truepeers Yes, Girard remains in play but there are a wide range of ways of deferring violence without Jesus. Even if we speak of imitating Jesus, we have no idea how many ways in which that might be done. Maybe the civilization institutions provide more vehicles for that.