The nationalist ideology refuses to critique the state it helped design.

Evidence

Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism acted as midwife during this process by lending legitimacy to the ethnocentric elements. Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists categorically refuse to consider that the problem facing the island may be the nature of the Sri Lankan state, because the present state is one that has been crafted according to their preferences. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Spells out why group solidarity survives the threat’s disappearance: dismantling the ideology would mean self-critique of a polity built to the group’s own preferences — the ideology is load-bearing, not contingent. — connects to: Orientalism’s practitioners deny their complicity with state power; Said rejects nation and state as coercive yet affirms national liberation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 842; Nationalist refusal to question the state serves their crafted preferences — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 229

Broader Connections

• Orientalism’s practitioners deny their complicity with state power #corroborates (0.85)