-baiting


  1. a combining form used to describe hate speech and other rhetoric or depictions that target a minoritized group in order to denigrate that group or for the purpose of pitting different identity groups against one another: gender-baiting;queerbaiting;race-baiting.

Origin of -baiting

1
First recorded in 1920–25; from bait (in the sense “to worry, torment”) + -ing1; modeled after Jew-baiting

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