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Recent Examples of race-baiting
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.
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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
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
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
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
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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The prejudice would be that Big Sandy would take a priority lien interest over the rights of these other creditors without those creditors being given notice and an opportunity to be heard.Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Then Edward meets Oswald, a man with that same condition, who does not seek treatment and instead lives his life with a sense of freedom and empowerment, raising many questions about prejudice, appearance and victimization.Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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Many of the posts contained hateful messages about Muslim Americans, the same type of bigotry O'Reilly had fought against.Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025
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Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe got most of the attention for his racist routine, but the event was filled with bigotry and obscene references.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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