race-baiting

noun

race-bait·ing ˈrās-ˌbā-tiŋ

often attributive

Synonyms of race-baiting next

: the making of verbal attacks against members of a racial group

Examples of race-baiting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Schrader’s dreary view of America conforms to Biden’s race-baiting games. —

Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023 The tweet was posted by an account which frequently traffics racist and race-baiting ideas. —

Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023 His ad hominem insults against regulators and a heroic British Navy diver, as well as his interactions with flamboyant race-baiting figures and other diversions, seem less than smart. —

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023

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