Apartheidist

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. a proponent of racial segregation who endorses systemic policies of enforced division based on ethnicity or skin color
2. someone who champions institutionalized racial separation and the legal enforcement of discriminatory divisions between groups
3. A person who advocates for or supports the enforcement of racial segregation through laws and social systems

Etymology: "Apartheid" was an Afrikaans term for the system of racial segregation in South Africa, meaning "apartness" or "separateness," and "apartheidist" is simply that word with the agent suffix "-ist" attached, producing a name for a person who supports such a system. The formation is plain and transparent: "-ist" marks an adherent or practitioner, so an apartheidist is one who champions apartness as official policy. The word's interest lies in how directly it ties a political ideology to a single national system. Because "apartheid" became the widely recognised label for South Africa's laws separating racial groups, the derived noun followed naturally to name the supporters of that system and of similar schemes of enforced division.