Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“To scapegoat is to do violence to someone who is, if not innocent, at any rate no guiltier than his fellows. More precisely, it is to treat someone whose guilt is at most quantitatively greater than the others' as though it were transcendentally greater, so that the violence that had been diffused over the entire community comes to be unanimously directed from the innocent collectivity to the one”

— Eric Gans, Scapegoating after September 11 · Saturday, November 24th, 2001 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment