Talk:Scapegoating

message: If you dont mind, I prefer it where it was. Just looking at other articles it is far from universal to have the image right at the top, see for example seduction and aggression. The scapegoat image was intentionally positioned alongside the etymology text which specifically relates the origins of the word to a goat and therefore ties in with the image. The history text that follows also relates to the image.--Penbat (talk) 20:07, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply. I understood that before I moved it. I also think it illustrates the entire concept of the article very well. The poor goat does look like a scapegoat, in all senses of the word. Borock (talk) 05:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Position of image

message: In literature - this of which I am a student of - a Scapegoat is a difficult "literary technique" (or sometimes called "persuasive technique") in which only extremely biased information is used, in addition to using other persuasive techniques, remaining totally accurate and convincing others to subconsciously infer information which is NOT said.
For example (I am trying to use a very controversial subject on purpose to prove my point) "Time, one nirvana, now near suicidal. The twisted hands of fate, slipping through the cracks of morality, a horrorsome event we refer each day. Christianity was born within this deathly questionare, something forever laid in hatred." I have said nothing more than: long ago (childhood) aging was good, but now it is bad nowadays; when Christianity was created, it aged (or changed); and people don't like to age. Yet you REFER that I mean "Jesus brings evil to this time, he and Christianity are the only things wrong with life, ect..." without me saying so. A reader at this point would have SUBCONSCIOUSLY believed only my biased argument exists, and that these "inferences" are correct. Therefore the reader will believe Jesus "ruined the world" without the writer directly stating so. 
Your current page is referring to nothing more than the secondary meaning of bullying, witch-hunts, biblical stories, which are entirely different subjects. I'm not much of a wikipedian, so could I please request something like this be created?
Michael Ipfreely555 Suman, (talk) 06:09, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nowhere mentioned Literary Technique

message: What about literary examples such as Shirley Jackson's, The Lottery? There are probably others, I just can't think of them right now. Ileanadu (talk) 02:59, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Literary Examples

message: The article makes it out that scapegoat, goat that gets sent out, is a based translation of azazil. Actually reading the article on Azazil does not imply this, and the source quoted is a print etymology book. Is there any justification for saying the translation of azazil as scape is actually *wrong*?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.15.131.136 (talk) 15:25, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect Translation of Azazil?

message: The sentence "A concept superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at Ebla of the 24th century BC" appears before the article discusses details around the biblical scapegoat. This needs to be fixed. Kingturtle = (talk) 19:22, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  elaboration needed 

message: I have moved some old page history that used to be at the title "Scapegoating" to Talk:Scapegoating/Old history. The only talk page section related to these edits can be found at Talk:Scapegoating/Archive 1#Atheists. Graham87 03:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Old page history

message: How is it called when a group scapegoats itself to look like the victim? Kind regards, Timelezz (talk) 21:42, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-scapegoating 

message: Isn't something similar to scapegoating going on in some animal groups ? --Japarthur (talk) 05:36, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scapegoating in animal groups ? 

message: Childrens books about family scapegoating behaviour patterns 124.148.46.235 (talk) 02:52, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family scapegoating in Childrens literature and picture books