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200697 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200697 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 25 pages Pharr, Nicholas Pino, Sarah Schugurensky, Daniel McQueen, Jon Barrett, The Honors College School of Life Sciences The goal of this project is to analyze out-group formation and prevention. We see through time that different groups have been formed and created narratives framing alternate groups based on a biased perspective. The actors have changed with time, but the message remains the same. Through the formation of in-and-out groups, individuals lose the ability to exercise critical thinking and empathy skills. The term scapegoat originates from a ritual performed in the Bible in the book of Leviticus, in which the community sacrifices a goat to atone for their collective sins. For this research, scapegoats are groups and/or individuals who are incorrectly blamed for some societal dysfunction. Today, marginalized groups are often used as scapegoats to justify authoritarianism and erode values associated with democracy. LGBT+ people, immigrants, and people of color are a few examples of contemporary scapegoats who are often targeted for political reasons to rally support around authoritarian policy. For instance, immigrants are being dehumanized and blamed for job shortages in the US to justify unequal treatment and unfair legislation. The project targets rhetoric with data to shed light on the misconceptions spread in the media or through political actors. Podcast Scapegoating Gender Government Immigrants Criminal Justice System Manufactured Outrage: How Scapegoating is Used to Maintain Power Structures and Marginalization