A timely and important article that I wish everyone on the Internet would read.

Picking sides is addictive. How do I know what I am unless I know what I'm not? Hence the vitriol. Hence the division. Hence a society rushing to tear itself apart.

And you point to a way out, too. A verb, not a noun. I honestly believe that if more people saw themselves that way, we would see far less hatred and stupidity in the world.