Free speech advocate love to cite (if not necessary read) JS Mill on utilitarianism.

But what if asking students & faculty to constantly debate racists & transphobes in the name of free speech doesn’t follow from Mill’s Greatest Happiness Principle? What’s the utility... (1/3) https://twitter.com/bentrott/status/1362343228939337731

...of endlessly debating with people whose entire argument is that they should be able to continue holding their beliefs without being challenged by the “woke”?

It’s not as if the “anti-woke” line can’t be read in almost any major UK newspaper. (This is mainly a UK debate) (2/3)

I’d have thought that the primary *utility* of universities was as spaces of study, teaching and research, not as spaces of supposed “debate” in which it becomes increasingly seen as “silencing” or as “cancel culture” for students to challenge received (“anti-woke”) ideas. (3/3)