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Recent Examples of race-baiting
And yet for a party and movement built in part on exclusion and a campaign marked at times by race-baiting, there were conspicuous overtures to diversity and inclusion, and sly acknowledgments of the power of the multiracial stew of American pop.
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Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
But three days before the election, the former President returned to a state he’s won twice to make an explicit race-baiting appeal to the other gender.
—Eric Cortellessa / Gastonia, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
Between the lines: Trump and Obama loathe each other, and the attacks between them veer into race-baiting and schoolyard taunts.
—Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
But three days before the election, the former President returned to a state he’s won twice to make an explicit race-baiting appeal to the other gender.
—Eric Cortellessa / Gastonia, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
Between the lines: Trump and Obama loathe each other, and the attacks between them veer into race-baiting and schoolyard taunts.
—Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for race-baiting
Noun
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In his remarks, Biden praised Till-Mobley for her courage in ensuring the world would see racism's horrors in her son's maimed body.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
25 July 2023
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But as has often been the case in U.S. history, there are sharp disagreement over racism's persistence and what role the government should have in addressing those issues.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA TODAY,
17 June 2023
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Adopt a zero-tolerance approach: Document every incident thoroughly with legal experts and witnesses, distinguishing valid concerns from smear campaigns, false claims or prejudice.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The premium crime show mixes whodunnits with explorations of social issues, including class differences, prejudices, workplace dynamics, and identity.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
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Robert Franklin Williams, a Black civil rights leader from Monroe, drew national attention in the 1950s and ‘60s for his approach to fighting bigotry.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2025
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This week, West doubled down on his bigotry by selling swastika t-shirts on a now-defunct Shopify website.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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