red-hairing

verb-
The act of hurling insults and/or employing inflammatory rhetoric as a tool of misdirection in order to avoid providing a sufficient answer or solution to a challenging question or situation. (Generally the rhetoric is designed to appeal to a particular base emotion to incite anger in an effort to divert attention from a specific question or situation. If done successfully, the receiver doesn’t realize their original question or challenge wasn’t actually addressed. This seems to be effective, regardless of type or level of intelligence or income if the correct diversion is created.)

I watched the 2016 RNC but all I heard was a lot of red-hairing.

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