MEME REFERENCE

Why would X do this

Use when someone causes a problem and then hypocritically blames an innocent person, group, or force for it.

What it expresses: The perpetrator poses as a confused victim of their own deliberate action.
Example: A manager cancels testing, ships a broken release, and asks why quality assurance allowed it; the team uses this format privately.
When not to use it: An investigator traces a failure to its actual external cause; accurate attribution is not self-exonerating blame.