Their preferences are rooted in different communities, emphasising different values or different interpretations of the same value (self-determination). Any answer is likely to involve painful compromise, including on core principles.
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Its a pertinent example given Corbyn's emphatic support for one side in that conflict, including its most extreme and uncompromising representatives and incuriosity about the claims of the other side (maybe I missed all his meetings with Ulster Unionists)
Now, again, he wasn't wrong in all the stands he took on that issue, and was often an important voice against injustice (e.g. wrongful convictions of bombers).
But it is difficult to look at his actual pattern of behaviour on that conflict and not see a politician who rejects notion of a basic and very difficult value clash and who instead sees a simple morally correct position: Unionists (and their British govt supporters) are wrong, Republicans right
A lack of nuance in politics (& in life) is partly what's "enabled" culture wars / lack of critical thinking
It's encouraged by those who seek to divide us
Once we only see a single point of view it's easier to exploit ("other") those are "wrong" or morally deficient
OTOH some things are just wrong
Similar to my experience of raising Russian support for the then Syrian dictatorship with him. Three times he passed on raising Russia's support for human rights abuses with the Russian ambassador, as if 'X is anti-American' and 'X is doing some bad things' were completely incompatible to him.
This is the problem with peace activism that takes one side. How can peace prevail if you take entirely one side but don't want to fight? You either tacitly support the violence on your side (usually by silence) or you genuinely believe making daisy-chains will change the opposite side's view.
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It's encouraged by those who seek to divide us
Once we only see a single point of view it's easier to exploit ("other") those are "wrong" or morally deficient
OTOH some things are just wrong