re: Freedom of Speech's costs are too high right now.

I remember a friend of mine whose place of work got a new manager from up North. First day the guy gave a big speech about how he knows how the south is but he doesn’t want to hear any racist remarks at work.

2 weeks went by of this Yankee living around culcha and he was dropping n bombs left and right

The majority of prejudices are formed from personal experience.

In certain areas of the country, certain demographics are more likely to act a certain way.

Say, living in Vermont, where a certain demo is about 4% of the population, versus living in NOLA, where you now have a 50% population to have personal experiences with.

Where certain demographics are only 4%, they are far more likely to conform to the standards of the remaining 96%. When certain demographics are actually the approximate majority, there is no societal pressure to conform to the standards of the other 50%.

So those conforming to the norm will not create negative personal experiences. Where as those that do not feel the need to conform to societal norms, will lead to more negative personal experiences, thus creating more prejudices.