folk devil | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,sociology)A person or type of personblamedby thepublicfor variousills, as during amoral panic.1987July 9, Steve Lohr, “Newcastle Journal: Half of England where jobs are as rare as Tories”, inNew York Times‎[1], retrieved27 February 2009:It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, "Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind offolk devil.1996December 18, Robert Verkaik, “‘Crash’ tackling”, inThe Independent (UK)‎[2], retrieved8 June 2014:"Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on afolk devilto attribute all evil."2013October 20,Jesse Walker, “Conspiracies: Five things they don’t want you to know”, inBoston Globe‎[3], retrieved8 June 2014:There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on afolk devil.

Examples:

EN: They're always looking for a new folk devil but every generation needs its own identity, a new thing different enough to totally captivate you.
ID: Mereka selalu mencari iblis baru tapi setiap generasi membutuhkan identitasnya sendiri, hal baru yang berbeda untuk memikatmu.
EN: 1. a situation in which the media reporting create a 'folk devil' of a particular social group
TE: హోం " టాప్ స్టోరీస్ " ప్రజల్లో అపోహలు సృష్టించేందుకు ఓ వర్గం మీడియా కుట్ర

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