A person who advocates or practices confrontationism; someone who believes in direct confrontation as a primary strategy for change.
From English 'confrontation' plus the suffix '-ist.' The term emerged in the 1960s to describe activists and leaders who rejected compromise.
In the Civil Rights movement, 'confrontationists' explicitly rejected Dr. King's non-violent approach, arguing that making oppression visible through direct confrontation was the only way to force change.
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