I suppose I'm saying that disagreement is just a start when it comes to content like what was brought up. Of course you and I disagree with a suggestion we elim

I suppose I'm saying that disagreement is just a start when it comes to content like what was brought up. Of course you and I disagree with a suggestion we eliminate a people group. But it's not simply another unit of thought in an objective marketplace of ideas. The Overton window came up a lot in 2016, and I think it's useful both descriptively and prescriptively--certain things should be outside the bounds of civilized discourse. Implicit in the notion that these ideas should be confronted rationally is that its adherent is simply misguided, miseducated, and that sure and steady appeals to reason and empathy will persuade them, as if all white supremacists rooting for genocide are waiting for their American History X moment, but I don't think you have to look hard to find intelligent and otherwise rational people advocating vile things. The obstacle isn't reason, it's something beyond that.