race-baiting
Americannoun
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acts of racist provocation, especially in speech and writing, including racial dog whistles, hate speech, threats, and other forms of harassment targeting one or more racial groups or members of such a group, often in the context of political or cultural polemics.
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any rhetoric or act that pits one racial group against another or incites racial hatred.
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Etymology
Origin of race-baiting
First recorded in 1940–45; race 2 ( def. ) + -baiting ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Davies' comments about halal meat in a school, which had been disputed by the school's local authority, had been accused of being "race-baiting" by a Muslim group.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
Many Georgians across racial lines are proud to claim a New South identity and may recoil from anything that smacks of overt race-baiting.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2020
Other statues would soon also be toppled, among them a likeness of Philadelphia’s race-baiting mayor of the 1970s, Frank Rizzo.
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2020
In this case, Ron Stallworth, an African-American Colorado Springs police officer, infiltrates a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s by posing, on the phone at least, as a race-baiting white supremacist.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2019
Gillespie strongly condemned the white nationalist rally and pushed back against criticism that his ads were race-baiting.
From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2017
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