The vile abuse, graffiti and attacks across Europe are sickening; ethnic or religious groups should never be collectively blamed and scapegoated, in times of war or peace.
The "Why do they hate us?" asked by my American friends is echoed in the "Why do they hate us?" from Egyptian relatives and friends, hurt that Muslims have been collectively blamed for Sept. 11.
It's fair enough for Republicans to say that they as an American faction should not be collectively blamed for extremist violence like Friday's attack (just as Muslims should not be collectively blamed for events like the Paris attacks).
He told the room of Canadian hockey elite (among the attendees were Pat Quinn, Kevin Lowe, Jacques Demers, and Cassie Campbell) that his high number of brain injuries were to collectively blame for the fact that he'd given away the jersey he was wearing when he scored what is now the most iconic goal in Canadian hockey history, the winner against the Russians in the 1972 Summit Series.
When he became ill recently, he had to pay for a doctor with his own money, and then had to wait several weeks before he could get an emergency test the doctor had recommended, the complaint says, collectively blaming Maximus, the state and the city.
Beyond an ability to collectively blame all Republicans for the vote, Democrats will also be able to pin it on specific Republicans who run for the Senate in 2018.
After the second world war, Germans collectively were blamed for the lengthy and brutal Nazi occupation.
To let Jews off the hook: Pope Benedict XVI, who has written that they are not collectively to blame for the death of Jesus Christ.
And the idea that Dallas, the "city of hate", was somehow collectively to blame, is absurd.Yet still the conspiracy theories live on, inspired by popular books such as Mark Lane's "Rush to Judgment", by Oliver Stone's preposterous movie "JFK", and by endless speculation online.
We should collectively stop blaming the victim for a crime that was done to her and stop propagating slut-shaming rhetoric.
Can an organization collectively assume blame and penalty, or are only individuals themselves culpable, and, if so, how far up in the pecking order?
