Nationalist demands follow ideology even when they hurt national unity.

Evidence

Although the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists’ hatred for the LTTE is understandable, the solutions they advocate are conducive to maintaining a supremacist Sinhalese Buddhist polity, not a polyethnic society where all can coalesce in unity and with self-respect. Yet these supremacist solutions too are understandable, as their demands are consistent with the overarching nationalist ideology that now dominates Sri Lanka’s political landscape. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the author’s operating definition: nationalist ‘solutions’ are intelligible as ideological outgrowths, not as functional means to resolve conflict.
• XREF: connects to: Ideological commitment can override national loyalty without dissolving national attachment — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 690

Broader Connections

• Ideological commitment can override national loyalty without dissolving national attachment #expands (0.90) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 690