backwarder

plural backwarders

1. One who or something that hinders progress or advancement, especially socially or politically.

   In reality, according to Michels, women are “far from being as different from men as the fanatical stagnators or backwarders of our social order imagine them to be.”

   2021, Vincent Streichhahn, On the Discourse of the “New Sexual Morality” in the German Empire: Robert Michels’ Sexual Ethics between Women’s Movement, Social Democracy, and Sociology, page 121

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   It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that this religion should be kept pure, — free from stagnation, superstition, backwarders, free from the waste products that naturally accumulate with time; — a free, living, lifegiving force that will serve as a perennial inspiration to the people.

   1928, Surendra Nath Dutt, The Life Of Benoyendra Nath Sen, page 219

   Despite sixty years of research reaffirming Parker's subjective judgment, the basic backwarders are out to eliminate open education and just about anything else that might make some sense.

   1976, Charles Weingartner, Basic Backwardness, page 3