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I've fought sectarianism all my life. That doesn't mean I was one-sided. I just hated it.
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The speaker says they have opposed sectarianism throughout their life, while stressing that this opposition was not narrow or biased. “I just hated it” makes the rejection personal and forceful: sectarianism was something they strongly disliked, regardless of any claim that opposing it meant taking only one side.
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