-baiting
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.
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They knew how to lure dogs into swamps, where they were used as bait for alligators.
These Pioneers Tried to Get the Confederate Flag Out of Mississippi 156 Years Ago | Fiona Zublin | December 3, 2020 | OzyElie calls this pages link bait pages because they easily attract links.
Video: Elie Orgel on using data to create pages that get links | Barry Schwartz | November 23, 2020 | Search Engine LandCrab trap success is dependent on using fresh baits, usually fish.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhen a crab grabs the bait, you can feel the line move and slowly lift the crab toward the surface to be netted.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhen line tension is released from the trap, it opens in a four-sided pattern, making the bait available to any nearby crab.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-Science
Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.
Texas Gun Slingers Police the Police—With a Black Panthers Tactic | Brandy Zadrozny | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTLimbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
When you saw it out in Ferguson, there was a baiting going on.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History | Marlow Stern | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Netflix prison dramedy, with its binge-baiting release strategy, is engrossing in every sense of word.
Inside Orange Is the New Black’s Terrifying Showdown Between Red and Vee | Kevin Fallon | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDesperate to stand out, some megachurches are baiting Easter crowds with flat-screen TVs, iPads, and Starbucks gift cards.
Can’t Fill the House On Easter? Try Handing Out Gadgets | Matthew Paul Turner | April 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Judge inquired if that was the sole object of the plaintiff, or was it not rather baiting with a sprat to catch a herring?
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousThe little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsAt Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes?
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleHe seemed to be baiting his hook for another cast in the river.
Paul Patoff | F. Marion CrawfordHer blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.
The Tragic Muse | Henry James
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