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== Real Life ==

* [[Truth in Television|If you don't know anyone with a habit of shifting blame, then you probably do it yourself]].

* [[Truth in Television|If you don't know anyone with a habit of shifting blame, then you probably do it yourself]]. And at the same time, if you accuse ''everyone'' in your life of shifting blame, you probably do it yourself. [[Hypocritical Humor|And if you didn't want to know this unsavoury tidbit about yourself, then it's your own damn fault for reading this page.]]

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** As famous existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre once remarked, an individual who only blames others for his failures can never be truly free, because he never accepts responsibility for his own actions.

** And at the same time, if you accuse ''everyone'' in your life of shifting blame, you probably do it yourself.

*** [[Hypocritical Humor|And if you didn't want to know this unsavoury tidbit about yourself then it's your own damn fault for reading this page.]]

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** As famous existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre once remarked, an individual who only blames others for his failures can never be truly free because he never accepts responsibility for his own actions.

* According to [[Peloponnesian War|Thucydides]], the Athenian democracy was like this. Generals who survived a failed expedition were often [[You Have Failed Me...|put to death]] by democratic vote, despite the fact that the people had voted for the expedition and it was obviously not the generals' fault.

* Psychologists call this the [[wikipedia:Fundamental attribution error|fundamental attribution error]].

* A lot of politics can be seen like this, depending on how cynical you are. Politics is, in a lot of ways, a popularity contest. If you plan on moving up the political ladder, you need to try and keep something of a clean record. When a large political blunder occurs (like the current debt crisis) there tends to be a lot of shuffling blame to avoid being the ones with egg on their faces when it's time for re-election season.

* A lot of politics can be seen like this, depending on how cynical you are. Politics is, in a lot of ways, a popularity contest. If you plan on moving up the political ladder, you need to try and keep something of a clean record. When a large political blunder occurs (like the current{{when}} debt crisis), there tends to be a lot of shuffling blame to avoid being the ones with egg on their faces when it's time for re-election season.

* Actually a very common argument many convicts make to justify their crimes. Most people who watch enough crime documentaries can list at least one criminal who for either [[Lack of Empathy]] or desire to eventually be proven innocent blames other people.

* This is basically how the chocolate companies try to justify doing little or nothing to help the many child slaves that gather cocoa. They claim they have no control over the cocoa farms they buy from, when they could just stop buying from said farms and/or spend some of the billions they have to help those children.

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* The list of people and organizations blamed for [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] losing the election in 2016 continued to grow for [http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/05/31/denial-is-a-btch-omg-look-who-hillarys-blaming-for-her-loss-now/ more than six months]. It does include most of her supporters, but not herself.

* The Japanese have yet to ''properly'' apologize for WWII, angering China and especially South Korea and making the relations between the countries bitter.

* [[Donald Trump]] took this [[Up to Eleven]] [[wikipedia:Racial views of Donald Trump|with too many to add here.]]

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