scapegoats

Scapegoats against class consciousness

TPTB have been suppressing class based arguments for a hundred years. With the demise of communism, the efforts of the corporate media to throw "class" into the "dustbin of history" have been unopposed, despite massive and ever growing class inequality. Economics has been twisted into a Manichean fight between laissez faire globalists and the demonized other, communists/socialists/New Dealers. This black and white narrative means that alternative worldviews are almost unknown.

Azazel

Background: There is some debate about the precise meaning of Azazel.

Leviticus 16: 8-10: 6 Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. 7 Then he shall take the two goats and set them before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel. 9 And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord and use it as a sin offering, 10 but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

Some traditions believe Azazel to be the name of a fallen angel.