#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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