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

Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.

Limbaugh 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.

The Netflix prison dramedy, with its binge-baiting release strategy, is engrossing in every sense of word.

Desperate to stand out, some megachurches are baiting Easter crowds with flat-screen TVs, iPads, and Starbucks gift cards.

The 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 little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.

At Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes?

He seemed to be baiting his hook for another cast in the river.

Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.

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