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Lawgolem
Lawgolem
(noun)
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔ -ˌɡoʊləm/
Definition:
1. A person deliberately manufactured, manipulated, or entrapped by state or institutional power to bear criminal charges, blame, or punishment, often as a tool for political, intelligence, or security agendas.
2. By extension: an expendable scapegoat constructed through legal or quasi-legal processes, stripped of autonomy and used as an instrument of power.
Etymology:
From law + golem (a legendary figure of Jewish folklore, an artificial being animated to serve its creator’s will).
Plural: lawgolems or (rare, literary) lawgolemim (echoing the Hebrew plural -im).
Derivatives:
lawgolemic (adj.) relating to or resembling the condition of being a lawgolem.
lawgolemic statecraft: governance strategy involving the creation of expendable scapegoats.
lawgolemisation (n.) the process of turning a person into a lawgolem.
to lawgolemise (verb) to manipulate someone into becoming a lawgolem.
lawgolemhood (n.) the state of existing as a lawgolem.
(noun)
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔ -ˌɡoʊləm/
Definition:
1. A person deliberately manufactured, manipulated, or entrapped by state or institutional power to bear criminal charges, blame, or punishment, often as a tool for political, intelligence, or security agendas.
2. By extension: an expendable scapegoat constructed through legal or quasi-legal processes, stripped of autonomy and used as an instrument of power.
Etymology:
From law + golem (a legendary figure of Jewish folklore, an artificial being animated to serve its creator’s will).
Plural: lawgolems or (rare, literary) lawgolemim (echoing the Hebrew plural -im).
Derivatives:
lawgolemic (adj.) relating to or resembling the condition of being a lawgolem.
lawgolemic statecraft: governance strategy involving the creation of expendable scapegoats.
lawgolemisation (n.) the process of turning a person into a lawgolem.
to lawgolemise (verb) to manipulate someone into becoming a lawgolem.
lawgolemhood (n.) the state of existing as a lawgolem.