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Recent Examples of race-baiting
And as strong a partner as ESPN is for WWE, this type of race-baiting is something other partners don’t provide.
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Bobby Burack Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers.
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Juan Rangel,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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
Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia.
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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.
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Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Bobby Burack Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers.
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Juan Rangel,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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
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.
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Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for race-baiting
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For much of the past several decades, overt expressions of racial prejudice became increasingly socially unacceptable in mainstream public life.
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Ableism is the everyday prejudice — sometimes subtle, sometimes overt — that treats people with disabilities as inconvenient, less competent, or less deserving of respect and opportunity.
Noun
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone created a show directly informed by millennials and Gen Xers growing up in a culture of gun violence, fear, moralizing, bigotry, war and division.
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Gabbard's team and a spokesperson for SIF called the reporting anti-Hindu religious bigotry.
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“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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