race-baity

English

Etymology

From race-bait +‎ -y.

Adjective

race-baity (comparative race-baitier, superlative race-baitiest)

1. (informal) Involving race baiting.
   • 2013 September 5, Mimi Dwyer, Julia Fisher, “(title)”, in The New Republic‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

     Has Drudge Become More Race-Baity? Here Are the Numbers.

   • 2017 January 3, Jesse Singal, “Guilty White Liberals Are Purchasing Racial Indulgences”, in Intelligencer‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29:

     It's a fairly paralyzing time to be a guilty white American liberal. With Donald Trump elected on the basis of one of the race-baitiest presidential campaigns in modern American history, Republicans firmly in power, and mounting evidence that progress toward racial equality has been stalled out for years if not decades, it feels like there's little chance of substantive progress anytime soon. What can the conscientious white ally do?

   • 2018 November 5, Mark Gongloff, “Let Trump Be Trump? America's About to Decide”, in Bloomberg‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2023:

     The GOP's main counterargument has been to stir up race panic. Fox News and NBC today decided a Trump-funded ad was so race-baity they had to pull it from the air (though not before showing it to millions of viewers first).

   • 2020 October 5, “Black-ish: Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross star in special one-hour election special on ABC”, in Daily Mail‎^[4], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-27:

     'Can we make it race-baitier?' Dre's co-worker wondered.