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The American Academy in Berlin's CZcams channel (AABonline) features a selection of lectures, readings, and discussions at in the arts, humanities, and public policy. To learn more, please visit www.americanacademy.de
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The Crossroads of Democracy: Student Protests and the 2024 US Presidential Election
This spring’s student protests were more dramatic than any America has seen since the Vietnam War. On some campuses, classes and even graduation were canceled; in a number of cases, police were called in to dismantle protestors’ encampments. The upheaval sparked charges of antisemitism on the part of some pro-Palestinian student activists and faculty, and of unacceptable curtailment of free speech by university leaders. In all, the demonstrations cast a harsh light on America’s institutions of higher education, which have long been seen as jewels of American society. The protests also raised the question of whether opposition to the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel and Gaza could weaken support for the president’s effort to win reelection.
To discuss the campus turmoil of 2024, the president of the American Academy in Berlin, Daniel Benjamin, spoke with student journalist Theo Baker of Stanford-whose article “The War at Stanford” appeared in The Atlantic in March-Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, and pollster Laura Silver, an associate director at Pew Research Center.
Theo Baker is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. As a student journalist for The Stanford Daily, he authored in-depth reports that resulted in the resignation of Stanford’s president and the retraction of several high profile scientific studies. A sophomore at Stanford University, he is the youngest ever recipient of a George Polk Award.
Nicholas A. Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. His work is in the fields of network science and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Laura Silver is an associate director at Pew Research Center, where she specializes in international survey research and writes about a variety of topics; she is also involved in all aspects of quantitative research process and survey design. Prior to Pew, she was a foreign affairs research analyst at the US Department of State in the Office of Opinion Research. Silver’s work has been published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and International Studies Quarterly, among others, and she regularly shares findings with media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, CNN, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and Radio Free Asia, among others.
To discuss the campus turmoil of 2024, the president of the American Academy in Berlin, Daniel Benjamin, spoke with student journalist Theo Baker of Stanford-whose article “The War at Stanford” appeared in The Atlantic in March-Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, and pollster Laura Silver, an associate director at Pew Research Center.
Theo Baker is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. As a student journalist for The Stanford Daily, he authored in-depth reports that resulted in the resignation of Stanford’s president and the retraction of several high profile scientific studies. A sophomore at Stanford University, he is the youngest ever recipient of a George Polk Award.
Nicholas A. Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. His work is in the fields of network science and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Laura Silver is an associate director at Pew Research Center, where she specializes in international survey research and writes about a variety of topics; she is also involved in all aspects of quantitative research process and survey design. Prior to Pew, she was a foreign affairs research analyst at the US Department of State in the Office of Opinion Research. Silver’s work has been published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and International Studies Quarterly, among others, and she regularly shares findings with media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, CNN, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and Radio Free Asia, among others.
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The Crossroads of Democracy: Foreign Policy Implications of the 2024 US Presidential Election
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Foreign policy seldom plays much of a role in American presidential elections, but the consequences of those contests can be profound for America’s allies in Europe and for the world. The 2024 election will have significant implications for American foreign policy, whatever the outcome. To discuss how the election results are likely to influence America’s global relationships - and particularly...
Letters Home
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In this illustrated lecture, Edmund de Waal explores his relationship with the idea of home through his writings and artistic practice. The lecture includes discussion of his projects in Venice and at the Musée Camondo (Paris), Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), Japanisches Palais (Dresden), and in Berlin.
American Academy in Berlin Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Video
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On the evening of April 9, 2024, the American Academy in Berlin celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with 250 guests at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Video testimonials in the Academy's anniversary film shown that night were offered by former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former German ambassador to the US and Academy trustee Wolfgang Ischinger, film director and ...
Rising Anti-Semitism in a Global Context
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Manifestations of anti-semitism in many societies are unique to those cultures, but rising anti-semitic incidents and attitudes around the globe exhibit a number of shared features. In this talk, Sharon Nazarian argues for the need to understand rising anti-semitism as a global trend. This talk is the inaugural Gahl Hodges Burt Lecture in Policy.
Navigating the Nuclear Future: Safety, Sustainability, and Security
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Climate change poses an existential threat to humanity, necessitating a rapid shift towards clean energy. Experts suggest it will be necessary to double or triple nuclear capacity by 2050 to achieve Net Zero emissions and the target of warming no greater than 1.5 degrees Celsius, a commitment echoed by 22 governments at COP28. Despite the Fukushima disaster, and in contrast to the German govern...
The New Right’s Cultural Politics
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Due a technical malfunction, video footage of this lecture had to be retrieved from the Zoom feed rather than the camera. We apologize for the inconvenience. A central part of the “metapolitical” agenda of the New Right aims to redefine cultural meanings, values, and identities to advance its socio-political aims. This strategy is neither new nor inherently Right, argues Johannes von Moltke; it...
Climate Change and Innovative Paths toward a More Sustainable Future
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Multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions over the past two centuries have transformed the world; they have also changed the climate of the earth. By the year 2100, eleven billion people will require sufficient clean energy, water, and food for their survival and future prosperity. How we transition to from where we are to where we need to be will require another industrial and agricultu...
Dollar Dominance and the Future of American Power
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Commentators in recent years have predicted the decline of the US dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. But Mark Copelovitch argues that the dollar’s dominance will persist for many decades to come, in large part because none of the supposed challengers - including the euro and renminbi - meet the economic or political requirements to supplant it. The dollar’s dominance creates opport...
Victims in the Shadow of Conflict
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Experiences of political violence shape the political identities of victims and their descendants. But not all such experiences have the same lasting intergenerational effects. In this talk, Noam Lupu offers a novel argument about what kinds of experiences of violence do and do not cause lasting intergenerational trauma for their victims, focusing particularly on the role played by blame-attrib...
Islam and Politics in America Today
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Between 2010 and 2020, American state legislators introduced more than two hundred bills banning sharia. In this talk, Mark Fathi Massoud discusses the historical exclusion of religious minorities in American law and society. He also looks at contemporary responses to anti-Muslim hate and the ways that Americans of all stripes have come to view religion as an alternate legal order that either c...
Fellow Spotlight: Noam Lupu
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Noam Lupu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. At the Academy, he is exploring how experiences of political violence shape the political identities of victims and their descendants in order to understand what kinds of political violence have lasting intergenerational effects. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with our upcoming events: buff.ly/44Sqsks
Fellow Spotlight: Mark Fathi Massoud
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Mark Fathi Massoud is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs the Legal Studies Program. In his Academy project, “Shari‘a and Religious Exclusion in American Democracy,” Massoud traces the intertwined rise of anti-shari‘a discourse and American Muslim responses to it.
Words Without Borders
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Founding editor and board chair of Words Without Borders Samantha Schnee discusses the history and development of the preeminent online publication devoted to literary translation since it was launched in 2003. Quenching a powerful intellectual thirst for world literature, WWB has been enormously beneficial for non-English speaking authors-thirty of whom were discovered by Anglophone editors th...
Why Are Epidemiologists So Bad at Epidemics?
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Why Are Epidemiologists So Bad at Epidemics?
The Supreme Court vs. the Administrative State
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The Supreme Court vs. the Administrative State
Abstract Expressionism: Who’s in the Picture?
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Abstract Expressionism: Who’s in the Picture?
The Crossroads of Democracy: The 2024 US Presidential Election
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The Crossroads of Democracy: The 2024 US Presidential Election
Opportunity and Exclusion in the New American Metropolis
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Opportunity and Exclusion in the New American Metropolis
Very odd paradox. Big Government, where some form a democracy still exist, is "bad".. However, It is common knowledge that elite Businesses and Businesspeople control and "govern the Government". Therefore from that axiom, one should logically conclude that since Elite Businesses and Businesspeople control the government so that the government enacts policies detrimental to most people in the country (highest burden of taxes on the middle class, pollution around middleclass communities and other such policies, are being driven by the Elite i just mentioned) should be "Bad" also since the elite is government by proxy. But the elite group is considered generally "good" -- which is a completely illogical conclusion. The only way to stop the true "Bad" groups (elites) causing the government to make bad decisions is through democratic pressure to get the government to make changes, but that is the wrong way to enact change because we all know the government is "Bad" and therefore not the way to do it. Dear lord i need a drink
Whenever I see a non muslim scholar talks about Islam, this is how I found them as per their knowledge and honesty speaking: Knowledgeable Muslim VS non Muslim Scholar, ordinary Muslim VS knowledgeable non Muslim, Muslim scholar VS no One 😀
Dear Ruth, you are gorgeous! Thank you for your great work and your formidable communication skills.
Muhammad is not God. Muhammad is the prophet of God.
He’s speaking about the prophet only from political and social point of view!
the quran does not refer to a city of Mecca located in the Hidjaz, this is a later lecture created by the abbassid caliphs (in the late 9th and 10th century) in order to invent a new religion suited for their goals of conquest and war and domination. They needed a place nobody knew, in the middle if nowhere.
There clearly is a distinction to make between the initial meaning of the coranic text (which was originally christian, though anti-trinitarian) and the meaning that was imposed (and distorted) later (9th and 10th centuries) by the abbassid caliphs (with the creation of the so-called "prophetic tradition" or "sunnah" with a multitude of hadiths, tafsir and siraa inventions). Their goal was to create a new religion serving their imperial interests of conquest and domination by the sword ... which still persists today
Has anyone counted the erm/s that Ms FiztGerald uses? Painful to listen to.
Uncle, prophet Muhammad (s) is burried in medinah, saudia arabia :) It is also "material evidence"
I used to leave lectures at university when the questions started, precisely because idiots like the one at 1:11:00 that was like "I'm A lAwyer. HeRe'S sOme Stuff I kNow >insert three minute lecture with 5-dollar words and concepts which have nothing to do with the lecture< dId ClImAte ChaNGe CaUse The IslAmIc ConverSioN? I'm sUpEr-DupEr GonCernEd AbOut ClimAte CHange Guys!". My eyes could only handle so much rolling.
What an astute lady🇬🇧
Professor to himself: "How do I make sure people at the end of my lecture do not ask me any question about my lecture and ask me about something silly. There has gotta be a way to distract them and yet end up delivering a lecture on a subject that naturally raises a lot of questions?"
8:20 to 8:27 My reply If god sent a message by Arabic language that don't mean god speak Arabic only So it's a misunderstanding
I blame the lack of civics in high school, the poor quality of public and private education, the lack of appreciation of the lessons of history.
The world doesn’t like American hegemony. It doesn’t like being bombed. It doesn’t like being sanctioned. It doesn’t like demands placed by the IMF that are damaging to developing countries. It doesn’t like Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, backed by America. So yeah America is powerful, thanks for reminding us. But the world hates it and will look for alternatives. It’s happening, slowly but surely.
USA life expectancy is lower than Chinas. Again, finance and gdp is not everything. 😊
Then why is America so scared of China? Why is America kneecapping Chinas technological advancement? Why is America kneecapping Chinas green tech sector with HUGE tariffs? Me thinks finance is not so important and manufacturing is.
Mit Verlaub: was für ein intellektueller Schwachsinn. Warum sollten die „Rechten“ nicht das machen, was die „Linken“ auch machen? Letztere schwafeln seit Jahrhunderten von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit und erzeugen tatsächlich Unfreiheit, Ungleichheit und Zwietracht (mit oder ohne Klassenansatz). DAS ist der eigentliche, ursprüngliche Euphemismus. Die Antwort zum „Forschungsgebiet“ von Herrn von Moltke ist ganz einfach: „Linke“ und „Rechte“, ebenso wie die „Mitte“ und alle anderen politischen Ausrichtungen, sind vom Wesen her gleich, also gesellschaftlich wesensgleich. Denn es ist nun mal Politik, also Volkssteuerung, um nicht Volksverdummung zu sagen. Aber diese neutralisierende Gleichsetzung darf natürlich nicht sein, denn dann gäbe es nicht all die Hunderten von Lehrstühle wie die für Herrn von Moltke, mit denen er seine heiße Luft von sich geben darf. Merke: der deutsche Adel war vor der deutschen Katastrophe von 1945 aus anderem Holz geschnitzt. Sechs! Setzen! GB: With all due respect: what intellectual nonsense. Why shouldn't the "right" do what the "left" does? The latter has been babbling about freedom, equality and fraternity for centuries and actually creates unfreedom, inequality and discord (with or without a class approach). THAT is the actual, original euphemism. The answer to Mr. von Moltke's "field of research" is very simple: "left" and "right", as well as the "centre" and all other political orientations, are essentially the same, i.e. socially identical. After all, it is politics, i.e. controlling the people, not to say dumbing down the people. But of course this neutralizing equation cannot be made, because then there wouldn't be all the hundreds of professorships like those for Mr. von Moltke, with which he can spout his hot air. Note: the German nobility was made of different stuff before the German catastrophe of 1945. Zero points! Sit down!
Catholics Created Islam then Lost Control
What are you smoking?
we have quranic manuscripts from teh time of Muhammed that disprove the idea that the quran were altered or edited after Muhammed, but sure, ignore them for convenience
1:05:00 onwards. Dude calmly dismisses a major prophecy that actually came true. Even though the historical records are more thorough than anything coming from western historical records. His only excuse was "it couldn't have been". Now you can see why the Quran calls them disbelievers. I loved his presentation though. Good research work.
In 1941 the Netherlands were occupied, it's definitely post invasion.
German bullshit from eiro
The radical jews where not killed they where expelled ....lot of flaws in western studies of Islam...th ey never killed anybody in their expansion ..he was only given rites by God to fight his own people who wanted him dead...just like Jesus who was a so called Jew came to his own people to correct them who have gone astray from true monotheism wanted him dead ..becausectheybwhere starting money lending with interest..like the banks today is against Gods ruling ...ifvyoubwantbto know what Islam is all about go seek truth from a learned scolar of Islam ....
Sorry for spelling my fingers are to large for my keyboard 😂
_"He was only given rites by God to fight his own people who wanted him dead"_ Simply not true! Ibn Kathir in his commentary on the much vaunted 2:256 makes it clear that there is an imperative to subjugate mankind under the hegemony of Islam.
@@You.are.boring.me.now2024 look at your western society of today ..all man made laws.. that is not what God wants ..if you abide by His 3 Holy books he has sent down ..the orinal of His first 2 books has been corrected by man to suite their agendas ..it was sent to the people of its time ..The Quran will be Gods last word not just to muslims or Arabs of its time ,but for all of mankind ..even Jinn kinds..(satans family created from fire before man.they (Jinn ) spread corrution in their time ..and still whispering in our ears to go against what God wants from us ..)my conversation here is done ..have more important things to do !!!
Thanks to the american academy in Berlin President Macron said that he want the new construction of 15 atomic power factory until 2030 The EU have now new consideration of electric power generated by atomic factory as part of green energy Somewhwere i read that in the word should be constructed about 200 new atomic factory until 2040. Germany 2022 shut down the last atomic factory but in the winter 2022/2023 they had problem with gas because of ucrain war . Germany turn up carbon burning for electric generation and there was an increasing output of CO2 emission The EU want to be until 2040 CO2 neutry. The burning of gas for heating will be stopped It should be heating only by heating pump (clima) For it heating in all Europ it will be led to a growing consumtion of energy in winter . For Hydrogen production that will be need by GermanyIndustry it necessary electric power. The hydrogenpipelines are in construction in germany. At the end i want to say that atomic genereted power its priority for climate change An atomic factory cost abour 10 billion dollar 200 unit cost 2000 billion dollar it will be a big business in the next 25 years. CarloPlotegher Lizzana Rovereto Italy.
One in every 69 people, or 1.5 per cent of the entire world's population, is now forcibly displaced. This is nearly double the 1 in 125 people who were displaced a decade ago. Over 117.3 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2023. This equates to more than 1 in every 69 people on Earth. Syria continues to be the world's largest refugee crisis as we enter 2024, representing nearly 25% of the total global refugee population. As of mid-2023, 6.49 million Syrians have sought refuge, primarily in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Türkiye . The current forced displacement of almost 2 million Palestinians and mass destruction of civilian property and infrastructure in the occupied Gaza Strip puts a spotlight on Israel's appalling record of displacing Palestinians and its ongoing refusal to respect their right to return for the last 76 years. And the numbers keep rising. I love this man and his cogent comments.
The Theremin was actually invented in 1920 in Russia. 1929 was the U.S. patent date when Lev Sergeivich Termn sold the patent to RCA. The Beach Boys song was "Good Vibrations" not "Smooth Vibrations," and an instrument called the stringer was used in place of a true Theremin.
The guy asking about climate change was a cringe
How can we take anything you say serious with that hair ?? 😅
Nothing like a blue haired judeo christian psudo professor of western science to express Islam 😂😂😂
Much better than your average indoctrinated religious clown!
Couldn't be said better!
Thanks to the academy . Me i read lot books from the historical important israelian writer Amos Oz . I wish all people of the word the best UNO hymne. CZcams Great from Europe Carlo Plotegher
There is no historical reference to Mecca until 740 ce, which is over a hundred years after Islam supposedly began. There’s many holes in the historical narrative.
This is correct. historical research proves that the city of Mecca could not have existed as a large commercial caravan city in the 7th century. Main reasons for this fact are: 1) Mecca is not an oasis, so there is no surface water (only a well, known as zamzam which is clearly unsufficient and inappropriate for watering many caravan camels) 2) Mecca is not shown on any map or any document at that time or even previously 3) Mecca is located down of Hidjaz plateau and could therefore not be located on the caravan route which is located more than 1000 m above on the plateau (eg the city of Taeef is located at an altitude of ca 2000 m while Mecca is at 300 m) 4) there were no archeological remains or artefacts (coins, potteries, ruins, bones etc) discovered in Mecca dating from before circa year 700 It is impossible that a large city would leave no trace at all of its past 5) no agriculture whatsoever is possible in this wild rocky desert location, how could a large city survive in such hostile environment ?
اذا ما هو تفسيرك؟
This is a very good lecture. I hope I can get in contact with Dr. Jackson before he publishes his book!
Watching this in 2024 and she is spot on.
Compared to Islam, the Mafia is a polite, charitable organization.
Brilliant ✓
Muawiya's coins had crosses on them. The religion as we know it today definitely developed after him.
Dr. Leigh Raiford one is one of the best Professors at UC BERKELEY
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God is not remote , Allahh is closer than your own jugular vein. Ignore to correct the audience who said the God of muslin is Muhamad. And purposely said the muslim collect head tax from non muslim called jizziah , without explaining the muslims were subjected to tax called zakat.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say he’s going to hell bc Allah Alone Knows what will happen to this man. However I would say he doesn’t really know much about anything that has to do with Arabic and that becomes painfully clear bc of his poor understanding of the Arabic. Also Islam is clear so long as one adheres to the Quran and sunnah and is not Arab centric. Even the fact that he classified Islam as later adaptation as a religion when he ignored the fact that Islam (or…the Quran) in fact progressed over 23 years. It’s not like the Quran was dropped in prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ lap wholepiece. Also there’s an entire science of Hadith. So if you see the science of Hadith then you can come to know what is sound. And honestly his absolute denial of prophecy and the possibility that God is real hinders him from accepting that prophet Muhammad ﷺ could have predicted something 200 years in the future. Then I want him to explain how someone could fabricate prophecies of things that didn’t happen until the 19th century and 20th. Please explain who would have went back and implanted that’s prophecies in manuscripts that predate the event itself?
All this idiot needs to do is go look at the topkapi manuscript of the Quran which matches today’s Qurans exactly minus the diacritical marks. This alone debunks his criticism and I’m honestly amazed this fool is funded by anyone (if he even is)
The biggest hurdle this man seems to have is his lack of knowledge in regards to Arabic. He has a bachelors in oriental studies and so far (43 minutes into this lecture) he has used mostly conjecture and no facts. He actually almost made me laugh when he tried to use the word mu’mineen (believers) to prove the idea that Muslim and believers are different. Every Muslim alive knows that Muslim is one who submits to Allah and that a mu’mineen is a reference to Muslims who have reached a deeper level of understanding in their religion. Yes it’s interchangeable with Muslim when used in certain context like Amir Al-mu’mineen but this doesn’t change the overall understanding of the underlying meaning of these words
What caught my attention his sarcasm that God speaks Arabic , God that created two trillion Galaxies , God that spoke to Moses in Hebrew will not be able to speak Arabic or any other language ??? I don't know how these morons earn their titles if they are so fuckin stupid ???
he is a very intelligent and well spoken man. A great artist. One of the best. Awesome man.
The language was taken by the leftists to make atrocities taste sweet, that's why we are in this mess. Irresponsability is a trademark of the left/commies/fascists/democrats, that take the responsability of a individual and put it into a group. And yes, those who wants more government, science to say what is right and what to do, are the fascists.
I'm Indonesian and I like his view 1:03:08
I don’t know how old this is the guys superb and extreme erudite you can tell. It’s fascinating. I really wonder how long he will survive or he would survive these days giving such a talk how many hours days or weeks would it take before you would get beheaded?
Pointless, like the man
Scapegoats. Always were and always will be.