segregators

Those who divide

Segregators are people or things that separate elements into distinct groups.

The word most often appears in discussions of racial segregation, referring to those who enforced or advocated for separating people by race: The segregators fought against integration of public schools.

In technical contexts, a segregator may be a device that sorts materials: The recycling facility uses mechanical segregators.

discrimination

apartheid

Racial separation policy

exclusion · marginalization · racism · bigotry · prejudice · segregationists · color line · racial separation · inequality · casteism

separation

dividers

Things that partition space

screens · walls · fences · boundaries · buffers · demarcation · compartments · enclosures · cordons · barricades

sorting

classifiers

Tools that assign categories

sifters · organizers · arrangers · binning · grouping · classification · taxonomy · indexing · cataloging · tagging

Opposites
social policy stance

segregatorsintegrators

Those who merge parts

integrationists · civil rights activists · abolitionists · unifiers · equalizers

role in social movements

segregatorscivil rights leaders

Advocates for equal citizenship

liberators · emancipators · reformers · progressives · egalitarians

social/racial policy stance

segregatorsintegrators

Those who merge parts

integrationists · civil rights activists · desegregationists · abolitionists · civil rights leaders

Family

segregator

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