Eight Perspective “Communication As Modes of Being”

College students are increasingly demanding that instructors and professors be either suspended, investigated, or terminated for saying anything in class that they, and they alone, judge to be offensive. They are also demanding that colleges disinvite and never invite speakers that they, and they only, judge to be offensive. (https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/campus-disinvitation-database)
Further, a recent study (https://www.yahoo.com/video/support-shouting-down-speakers-campus-191033271.html) found that a majority of college students support shouting down speakers that they, again, judge to offensive (https://www.yahoo.com/video/support-shouting-down-speakers-campus-191033271.html).
The impact of all these new trends on college campuses can now be seen in other recent surveys that show that most college students are afraid and unwilling to be honest in classroom discussions out of fear of being publicly shamed, and instructors and professors increasingly unwilling to assign books and host discussions that could potentially offend any group of students (https://www.thefire.org/news/just-released-2022-2023-college-free-speech-rankings). In the face of all these trends to stop us from hearing and being exposed different things and people, what becomes the possibility of education? In other words, with so much fear now permeating the classroom, fear of being suspended, investigated, and terminated, fear of your fellow students calling you something horrible for expressing an unpopular view (E.g., “I am against affirmative action.”), fear of being secretly recorded and your words being taken out of context, fear of students blowing up your teaching evaluations with all kinds of reckless accusations, fear of mis-pronouncing a person’s name, fear of calling or referring to a person by the wrong pronoun, fear of referring to news sources that a student views as racist (e.g., mentioning anything that was on Fox News or in the College Fix), and fear of being publicly shamed through social media, how can education flourish when communication is stifled, suppressed, and discouraged? To view communication from the perspective of modes of being assumes that to suppress communication, and thereby limit our ability to understand, is to suppress all that is good and important, such as becoming learned and educated. With all this mind, and using Chapter 8 as your guide, what are your thoughts on the following