scapegoat

syntipukki In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

alluding herein unto the heart of man and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified by the Goat that was slain, and the scape-Goat in the Wilderness

He is making me a scapegoat.

The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.

People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.

They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.

And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat.