What did you mean? -
"So extremism and sectarian violence are now the very things that bring catholics and protestants together for the first time?"
It's fairly intuitive to any Irishman what he means.
But here we have a bad case of "ze Germans" are coming.
You see there is a problem with too much preciseness in language.
It is much more limited in describing certain aspects of the world, of life, and of human experience.
Language naturally spoken is imprecise. You might interpret a number of ways.
In communicating you keep at it, and at it, paint your picture, until your meaning is adequately conveyed.
Unlike legal language that inevitably becomes incredibly convoluted to attain a preciseness, to ensure that there is only one interpretation, and no other possible interpretation.
That, or you reduce language to pointing to and referring to existing slogans, stereotypes, that everyone already has a ready made picture of, in mind.
It has been pre-made for them. For the Jambos, and "ze Germans".
You see how these type of totalitarian currents arise.