Small businesses can less afford to have coworker complaints, negative offhand remarks and other fear-based behavior because those remarks have a bigger impact than at large companies.
If you have a business with 20 people and they are typical of most Americans, they will generally support fairness. However, a minority of them will have real attitude problems.
What makes AIDS hard to deal with is the remaining prejudice and unreasonable fear. Even today, 20 years after the epidemic started, a number of people have still not been personally affected and remain uninformed and reluctant to address the issue seriously.
