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Definition of red-bait in English: red-baitverb [with object]often as noun red-baitingNorth American informal Harass or persecute (someone) on account of known or suspected communist sympathies. the red-baiting chairman of the Senate committee Example sentencesExamples - Race issues and red-baiting added color to the mix.
- You may have seen a letter I emailed earlier regarding his red-baiting me in a public forum of almost 100 people.
- As a practical matter, only those who explicitly oppose such coexistence with capitalist politics are generally subjected to red-baiting and repression in such ‘non-exclusionary’ radical movements.
- Fear is always ugly, just as it was when the liberals rushed out to red-bait and denounce the left in the McCarthy years.
- But those were days of paranoia and red-baiting - the McCarthy era - and the right-wing sleaze merchants went to work on John Henry with outlandish accusations that he was a communist.
- Of course the Republicans and the corporate media are going to red-bait me.
- The author notes a symbiosis between Cold War events and southern red-baiting but never fully explores these connections.
- Though stopping short of overtly red-baiting him, the newspaper continued to refer to his earlier associations with leftist organizations.
- Is it red-baiting to point out that the group is red?
- After experiencing official restrictions during World War II and red-baiting during the Cold War, they drew back from close governmental cooperation.
- In the senate he attacked Joe McCarthy for red-baiting and stood up for civil rights.
- In the old days, there was a word for this sort of thing, two actually: red-baiting.
- The newspaper published a string of editorials and comments, red-baiting the organisers, which include the middle class radical group Resistance, and demanding the government take action.
- The renewed attention to the provincial opposition, and the coverage of its strategic debates, is predictably replete with thinly veiled cynicism, red-baiting, and general anti-socialist sentiment.
- By the by, Dr Spencer Fitzgibbon, if you're going to red-bait at least research your terms.
- Also, the make-up of union membership has shifted - more minorities, more women, more new immigrants, and more workers for whom the old Cold War red-baiting is not even a distant memory.
- Teamsters thugs used violence and red-baiting to intimidate Mexican migrant workers fighting for better conditions, while the union signed several pro-company contracts.
- Far from being red-baited for his past identification with socialism, he was given the stamp of approval and included in all of the candidates' debates televised across the state.
- The setting is early ‘50s Hollywood, a time of red-baiting and gay-bashing.
- When confronted with a few probing questions, Bolton treats the journalist as an outright political opponent, resorting immediately to his stock-in-trade - provocative red-baiting.
Synonyms oppression, victimization, maltreatment, ill treatment, mistreatment, abuse, ill usage, discrimination, tyranny, tyrannization, punishment, torment, torture
noun South African A large sea squirt which is a popular bait with sea anglers. Pyura stolonifera, class Ascidiaceae
Derivatives noun For them, the threat to liberal values came entirely from the right - from militarists, from red-baiters, and from the forces of economic reaction. Example sentencesExamples - For the red-baiters, American movies represented a totalitarianism creeping in from without.
- But red-baiters were able to drive liberals away from the group.
- And behind the red-baiters come the state and the police.
- The language used in the campaign easily matches the standards set by the great Fleet Street red-baiters of the past.
Definition of red-bait in US English: red-baitverbˈredbāt [with object]often as noun red-baitingNorth American informal Harass or persecute (someone) on account of known or suspected communist sympathies. the red-baiting chairman of the Senate committee Example sentencesExamples - By the by, Dr Spencer Fitzgibbon, if you're going to red-bait at least research your terms.
- Though stopping short of overtly red-baiting him, the newspaper continued to refer to his earlier associations with leftist organizations.
- Fear is always ugly, just as it was when the liberals rushed out to red-bait and denounce the left in the McCarthy years.
- You may have seen a letter I emailed earlier regarding his red-baiting me in a public forum of almost 100 people.
- But those were days of paranoia and red-baiting - the McCarthy era - and the right-wing sleaze merchants went to work on John Henry with outlandish accusations that he was a communist.
- As a practical matter, only those who explicitly oppose such coexistence with capitalist politics are generally subjected to red-baiting and repression in such ‘non-exclusionary’ radical movements.
- Is it red-baiting to point out that the group is red?
- In the old days, there was a word for this sort of thing, two actually: red-baiting.
- The author notes a symbiosis between Cold War events and southern red-baiting but never fully explores these connections.
- After experiencing official restrictions during World War II and red-baiting during the Cold War, they drew back from close governmental cooperation.
- In the senate he attacked Joe McCarthy for red-baiting and stood up for civil rights.
- The setting is early ‘50s Hollywood, a time of red-baiting and gay-bashing.
- Of course the Republicans and the corporate media are going to red-bait me.
- Far from being red-baited for his past identification with socialism, he was given the stamp of approval and included in all of the candidates' debates televised across the state.
- Race issues and red-baiting added color to the mix.
- The newspaper published a string of editorials and comments, red-baiting the organisers, which include the middle class radical group Resistance, and demanding the government take action.
- Teamsters thugs used violence and red-baiting to intimidate Mexican migrant workers fighting for better conditions, while the union signed several pro-company contracts.
- When confronted with a few probing questions, Bolton treats the journalist as an outright political opponent, resorting immediately to his stock-in-trade - provocative red-baiting.
- The renewed attention to the provincial opposition, and the coverage of its strategic debates, is predictably replete with thinly veiled cynicism, red-baiting, and general anti-socialist sentiment.
- Also, the make-up of union membership has shifted - more minorities, more women, more new immigrants, and more workers for whom the old Cold War red-baiting is not even a distant memory.
Synonyms oppression, victimization, maltreatment, ill treatment, mistreatment, abuse, ill usage, discrimination, tyranny, tyrannization, punishment, torment, torture
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