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- noun US The practice of
accusing someone of being acommunist ,socialist oranarchist with the intention ofdiscrediting his or herpolitical views
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Examples
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After a rash of red-baiting anti-communist films in the early 1950s, the popular cinema of the English-speaking world largely abandoned communist villains in favour of conspiratorial freelance crooks like "Spectre" in the Bond movies and trouble-making renegades.
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Like the red-baiting extremists of old, their obsession undermines useful efforts to root out the very evil they are seeking to overcome.
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I can make up my own spoof and skewer him seven ways to sundown for being a liberal squish, red-baiting, democratic party tool.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending
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It would require the GOP ditching their corporate overlords and tiresome red-baiting in order to agree to a pragmatic approach that both boosts industry and provides universal coverage … and it would require the Dems to grow a spine.
Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill
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Ms. Frost, a self-described "women's historian," brings the intellectual habits of the faculty lounge to her work, searching for evidence of racism, sexism and red-baiting under every pebble, however tiny.
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And given that ER was politically active right up to her death, that Bobby was chiefly known as a red-baiting congressional aide before he became AG and that his eventually running for elective office was hardly unlikely it would not surprise me at all if somewhere in the ER papers there really is a note or letter expressing not unreasonable concern at the general idea.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt
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Beck's red-baiting of the rally was woven into some of the coverage.
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I guess red-baiting is better than gay-baiting as long as you're doing it with Laughton chewing the scenery.
A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury
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Beck's red-baiting of the rally was woven into some of the coverage.
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Soon, he was defending one prominent New Left alumna, Heather Booth, against virulent red-baiting by Lane Kirkland, the AFL-CIO apparatchik who replaced Meany in 1979.
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