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Who is the scapegoat?
It is the innocent who pays for others.
“
This furry, this mangy
” in the fable of Animals sick with the plague, where all the evil comes from.
The “
black bodies swaying in the southern breeze.
A strange fruit hanging from poplar trees.
The eyes rolled back and the mouth distorted
” in the Billie Holiday song.
The shorn woman at the Liberation, “
The unfortunate woman who remained/ On the pavement/ The reasonable victim/ With her torn dress/ With the look of a lost child
” (Paul Éluard).
Goat in the Bible.
Donkey in the fable.
Oedipus in Sophocles.
Christian in the Roman Empire.
Leper in the Middle Ages.
Witch in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Protestant on Saint-Barthélemy's Day.
Noble under terror.
Bourgeois during the Commune.
Armenian in the ending Ottoman Empire.
Small peasant owner under Stalin.
Jew, gypsy, homosexual for the Nazis.
Communist in America...
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