#disputant  a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
  supertype:  #person__individual__someone__somebody__mortal__human__human_being__humanbeing__soul  a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
  subtype:  #accuser  someone who imputes guilt or blame
  subtype:  #debater__arguer  someone who engages in debate
     subtype:  #devil's_advocate__devil'sadvocate  someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument
     subtype:  #disprover__rebutter__refuter  a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
     subtype:  #wrangler  someone who argues noisily or angrily
  subtype:  #denier  one who denies
  subtype:  #logomach__logomachist  someone given to disputes over words
  subtype:  #obstructionist__obstructor__obstructer__resister__thwarter  someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
     subtype:  #naysayer  someone with an aggressively negative attitude
     subtype:  #stonewaller  one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate
  subtype:  #quarreler__quarreller  a disputant who quarrels
  subtype:  #quibbler__caviller__caviler__pettifogger  a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
  subtype:  #radical  a person who has radical ideas or opinions
     subtype:  #anarchist__nihilist__syndicalist  an advocate of anarchism
        instance:  #Mikhail_Aleksandrovich_Bakunin__Bakunin__Mikhail_Bakunin  #Emma_Goldman__Goldman  #Pyotr_Alexeyevich_Kropotkin__Kropotkin__Prince_Peter_Kropotkin  #Nicola_Sacco__Sacco  #Benjamin_Ricketson_Tucker__Tucker  #Bartolomeo_Vanzetti__Vanzetti
     subtype:  #Bolshevik__Marxist__pinko__red__bolshie  emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
     subtype:  #extremist  a person who holds extreme views
     subtype:  #leveler__leveller  a radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities
     subtype:  #revolutionist__revolutionary__subversive__subverter  a radical supporter of political or social revolution
        subtype:  #counterrevolutionist__counterrevolutionary  a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
        subtype:  #dynamiter__dynamitist  a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause
        subtype:  #Girondist  a member of the moderate republican party during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins
        subtype:  #insurgent__insurrectionist__freedom_fighter__freedomfighter__rebel  a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
           subtype:  #mutineer  open rebellion and refusal to obey authorities (especially by seamen or soldiers)
           instance:  #Nat_Turner__Turner  #Denmark_Vesey__Vesey  #Sir_William_Wallace__Wallace
        instance:  #Marie_Anne_Charlotte_Corday_d'Armont__Corday__Charlotte_Corday  #Georges_Jacques_Danton__Danton  #Ernesto_Guevara_de_la_Serna__Guevara__Che_Guevara  #Mao_Tsetung__Mao__Mao_Zedong  #Jean_Paul_Marat__Marat  #Jose_Julian_Marti__Marti  #Karl_Marx__Marx  #Comte_de_Mirabeau__Mirabeau__Honore-Gabriel_Victor_Riqueti  #Maxmillien_Marie_Isidore_de_Robespierre__Robespierre  #Leon_Trotsky__Trotsky__Lev_Davidovich_Bronstein  #Francisco_Villa__Villa__Pancho_Villa__Doroteo_Arango  #Emiliano_Zapata__Zapata  #Zhou_En-lai__Chou_En-lai
     subtype:  #terrorist  a radical who employs terror as a political weapon
        instance:  #Jacobin
     subtype:  #Trotskyite__Trotskyist__Trot  radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
     subtype:  #Young_Turk  a radical who agitates for reform
  subtype:  #reformist__reformer__crusader__meliorist  a disputant who advocates reform
     subtype:  #abolitionist__emancipationist  a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
        instance:  #Henry_Ward_Beecher__Beecher  #John_Brown__Brown  #Frederick_Douglass__Douglass  #William_Lloyd_Garrison__Garrison  #Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe__Stowe__Harriet_Beecher_Stowe  #Arthur_Tappan__Tappan  #Sojourner_Truth__Truth  #Harriet_Tubman__Tubman  #Theodore_Dwight_Weld__Weld
     subtype:  #birth-control_campaigner__birthcontrolcampaigner__birth-control_reformer__birthcontrolreformer  a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
        instance:  #Marie_Charlotte_Carmichael_Stopes__Stopes__Marie_Stopes
     subtype:  #Chartist  a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
     subtype:  #civil_rights_leader__civil_rights_worker  a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
        instance:  #Julian_Bond__Bond  #William_Edward_Burghardt_Du_Bois__Du_Bois__W._E._B._Du_Bois  #Medgar_Wiley_Evers__Evers__Medgar_Evers  #James_Leonard_Farmer__Farmer  #Jesse_Louis_Jackson__Jackson__Jesse_Jackson  #Martin_Luther_King_Jr.__King__Martin_Luther_King  #Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little  #James_Howard_Meredith__Meredith__James_Meredith  #Rosa_Parks__Parks  #Paul_Bustill_Robeson__Robeson__robeson__paulrobeson  #Roy_Wilkins__Wilkins  #Whitney_Moore_Young_Jr.__Young__Whitney_Young
     subtype:  #protester__demonstrator  someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
        subtype:  #picket.protester  a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
     subtype:  #dry__prohibitionist  a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
        instance:  #Carry_Amelia_Moore_Nation__Nation__Carry_Nation  #Frances_Elizabeth_Caroline_Willard__Willard
     subtype:  #environmentalist__conservationist  someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
        subtype:  #Green  an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
        instance:  #Rachel_Louise_Carson__Carson__Rachel_Carson  #Barbara_Ward__Ward__Baroness_Jackson_of_Lodsworth
     subtype:  #feminist__women's_rightist__women'srightist__women's_liberationist__women'sliberationist__libber  a supporter of feminism
        subtype:  #suffragette  a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
        instance:  #Simone_de_Beauvoir__Beauvoir  #Betty_Naomi_Friedan__Friedan__Betty_Friedan  #Charlotte_Anna_Perkins_Gilman__Gilman  #Lucretia_Coffin_Mott__Mott  #Alice_Paul__Paul  #Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton__Stanton  #Gloria_Steinem__Steinem  #Lucy_Stone__Stone  #Sojourner_Truth__Truth  #Mary_Wollstonecraft_Godwin__Wollstonecraft__Mary_Wollstonecraft  #Frances_Wright__Wright__Fanny_Wright
     subtype:  #hippie__hippy__hipster__flowerchild  someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
     subtype:  #insurgent__insurrectionist__freedom_fighter__freedomfighter__rebel  a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
     subtype:  #militant__activist  a militant reformer
        subtype:  #Black_Muslim  activist member of a largely Black American group called The Nation of Islam
           instance:  #Elijah_Muhammad__Muhammad
        subtype:  #Black_Panther  a member of the Black Panthers political party
        instance:  #Malcolm_X__Malcolm_Little
     subtype:  #non-resistant__nonresistant__passive_resister__passiveresister  a reformer who believes in passive resistance
     subtype:  #Utopian  an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
     instance:  #Anthony_Comstock__Comstock  #John_Huss__Huss__Hus__Jan_Hus  #Robert_Owen__Owen  #Girolamo_Savonarola__Savonarola  #Francis_Everett_Townsend__Townsend  #John_Wilkes__Wilkes

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