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		cubancigar11 on June 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter Thiel on "Founder as Victim, Founder as God" Caste system - I knew it will be the first reply. So why don't YOU tell me how caste system was a scapegoat? How come a system of stratification be about an individual leader?

ktizo on June 8, 2012 [–]

You can scapegoat groups or individuals, the word itself applies in both contexts. If you want to find examples of scapegoating of individuals in India, then that isn't particularly hard either. Not that India is special in this regard.

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