Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

@moshik_temkin Thanks for that reference, Moshik. Girard describes the ‘sacred violence’ of the scapegoat mechanism as mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal. Whether Palestinians or Blacks, at home or abroad, here’s how it works and the political significance of the Christic function.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Feb 2021

Here’s how it works. When a group’s sacrificial rituals ‘function’, they transfer existing antagonisms onto a figure or group against whom all can unite, an act that miraculously dissolves existing tensions and replaces them with social bonding. 2/

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