Examples of Scapegoating in History, what is a modern example of scapegoating?

The Jews were not the only group of people who were used as scapegoats to further the cause of ruthless people. Throughout history, a myriad of people have been wrongly persecuted for belonging to a specific social group. One example of scapegoating is seen in the infamous "Sacco and Vanzetti" trail in which Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested outside Boston in 1920 and charged with robbing and killing a shoe factory paymaster …

…Japanese blood in oneself, one must be an anti-American spy. Unfortunately, this disgusting treatment of people of other races continues to this day. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, people of Middle Eastern ancestry were targeted as being possible terrorists. We must learn to look past the noticeable differences in physical appearance, and to value who someone is as a person, rather than judge them because they belong to a certain sociological group.