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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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My family moved here because of its lack of prejudice—being Jewish, my father, an engineer, couldn’t get a job in Boston around 1945 because of antisemitism.—
Allure Editors,
Allure,
17 Jan. 2025
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Many filmmakers try to disguise their less socially acceptable prejudices, their impolite fears, dislikes and worse, but Lynch always seemed unafraid or maybe uninterested or just unaware about what others thought of his uglier visions.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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The show assembles artists whose work has implicitly or explicitly challenged local and global legacies of homophobia and bigotry, offering imaginings of alternative futures as well as celebrations of intimacy, faith, family and joy.—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
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His brilliance lies in animating millions to tune out critical thinking and follow his lead in promoting xenophobia, bigotry and resentment.—
DP Opinion,
The Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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