-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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of -baiting¹

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