Polarisation of Irish Citizens Rights

You probably haven’t noticed the one million+ who have died in ‘humanitarian interventions’ since the beginning of this century.

Well there's this thing called a dictionary.....

I am of an age where I still make regular use of old-fashioned hard copy dictionaries. I have two in my possession: an old (about 30 years or so) Concise Oxford English Dictionary and an even older--actually pretty archaic--Chamber's English dictionary.

The former describes polarisation as "(figurative) divide into two groups of opposite extremes of opinion etc"

Whereas Chambers describes it as: "to give polarity to". Polarity in the same tome is described as: "State of having two opposite poles".

The distinguishing feature of a polarised entity, therefore, whether it is a physical object such as a magnet or a living organism such as a country or society is that it has TWO distinguishing features that repel and separate each other. Polarisation produces forces that permit no nuance, co-existence or compromise. One has to be one or the other.

In general Irish society is not polarised, with the exception of the North where there is traditional and very strong polarisaton between Catholic/Irish and Protestant/British communities. One particularly dim Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pronounced herself surprised to find out, once she had been in the job for some time, that every election in Northern Ireland was effectively two separate elections for the Nationalist and Unionist communities. In other words, there might be swings of support between parties WITHIN the polarised groups (Unionists shifting their support between say the UUP, DUP and TUV, or Nationalist support ebbing backwards and forwards between Sinn Fein and SDLP) but there was very little evidence of voters deserting say Sinn Fein and voting for the DUP. That just doesn't happen in a polarised society.

Britain and America are becoming increasingly polarised because their voting systems encourage it. You effectively have only one choice: Red or Blue in either case. And just to be confusing, red in the US approximates to bue in Britain and vice versa. Polarisation is bad. Compromise and co-existence is much better.

You are talking about something else when you mention polarisation with regard to Ukrainian refugees. It is inevitable that you will be misunderstood because you don't yourself understand the words you are using.

Sorry, but you've just tickled one of my bugbears. I hate to see journalists using words like "Colonisation" and "whiteness" (among others) as trigger words to describe things which are far better described with other more appropriate words. I'm trying not to be a grammar or semantic Nazi but I do think it is important for people to say what they mean in a way that other people will understand what they mean. Otherwise, why say it at all?

How does OSCOLA referencing back up your definition of "Polarisation" ??

this is a definition of polarization.

I changed my post because I forgot, given the extremely low standard of this thread that it was actually in Politics and not in AH or CA

So, here you are questioning it, yet you are saying you can't.