race-baiting
noun
race-bait·ing
ˈrās-ˌbā-tiŋ 
often attributive
: the making of verbal attacks against members of a racial group
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His incendiary and race-baiting comments, like the promotion of the baseless rumor that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, haven’t helped either.
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Kizzy Cox, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
Trump bounded onto the national political stage nearly a decade ago by making race-baiting populism mainstream again.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
His running mate, JD Vance, loves to attack her for supposedly using different accents, which is really just another amateur-hour race-baiting gambit.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
The Harris attacks represent a textbook example of his approach to politics, combining his belief in the strategic power of race-baiting to mobilize his base and his favorite tactic for disrupting a bad news cycle: changing the subject to something even more outrageous.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article A race-baiting neo-Nazi was sentenced on Friday to 44 months in federal prison for posting graphic death threats online against a Brooklyn journalist who wrote about his violent extremist hate group.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024
Thankfully, there’s no sign of the twisted, defensive, loudmouth race-baiting that marks the legislative misbehavior of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and their ilk in Regina King’s salutary portrayal.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
Donald Trump kicked off his first presidential campaign in 2016 by promising to reduce immigration, using language targeting Mexican immigrants that many saw as race-baiting.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
It’s sometimes overlooked that, in 2016, Trump twinned his race-baiting and attacks on cultural élites with criticisms of C.E.O.s, corporations, and bankers who had shipped abroad American jobs, and of the politicians who had enabled them.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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Kizzy Cox, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
Trump bounded onto the national political stage nearly a decade ago by making race-baiting populism mainstream again.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
His running mate, JD Vance, loves to attack her for supposedly using different accents, which is really just another amateur-hour race-baiting gambit.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
The Harris attacks represent a textbook example of his approach to politics, combining his belief in the strategic power of race-baiting to mobilize his base and his favorite tactic for disrupting a bad news cycle: changing the subject to something even more outrageous.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article A race-baiting neo-Nazi was sentenced on Friday to 44 months in federal prison for posting graphic death threats online against a Brooklyn journalist who wrote about his violent extremist hate group.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024
Thankfully, there’s no sign of the twisted, defensive, loudmouth race-baiting that marks the legislative misbehavior of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and their ilk in Regina King’s salutary portrayal.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
Donald Trump kicked off his first presidential campaign in 2016 by promising to reduce immigration, using language targeting Mexican immigrants that many saw as race-baiting.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
It’s sometimes overlooked that, in 2016, Trump twinned his race-baiting and attacks on cultural élites with criticisms of C.E.O.s, corporations, and bankers who had shipped abroad American jobs, and of the politicians who had enabled them.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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