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Recent Examples of race-baiting
Fox has become a pariah in the entertainment industry because of his anti-immigration rhetoric, race-baiting, and misogyny.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025
The hosts also talk about the Fanatics Games, a blend of Pros vs. Joes and MrBeast’s YouTube channel; the good (big ratings) and bad (social race-baiting) about the WNBA‘s opening weekend; and the sale of LiveBarn, the youth sports streaming platform whose backers include Susquehanna and Ares.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025
The hosts also talk about the Fanatics Games, a blend of Pros vs. Joes and MrBeast’s YouTube channel; the good (big ratings) and bad (social race-baiting) about the WNBA‘s opening weekend; and the sale of LiveBarn, the youth sports streaming platform whose backers include Susquehanna and Ares.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for race-baiting
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Good parenting can help protect kids from racism’s harmful effects, but what works in person might not work online.—
Alvin Thomas,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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Cook’s broader economic research on inequality, innovation, and racism’s effect on invention brings policy relevance that might otherwise go overlooked.—
Kori Hale,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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With any luck, it will someday be reversed, like other famous examples of Supreme Court decisions that reflected prejudice against African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and others.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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This sensual, swoon-worthy drama dares to imagine love thriving where prejudice prevails.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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The right is being horrifyingly plain in bleating their bigotry, but they’re also lost in linguistic obscurities.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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