Things that make you go Hmmm......

So - I had an interesting conversation today....the details of which aren't all that important except that this person - Deep Throat (for the purposes of this post) - basically said that he/she would be more offended by a racist remark than a homophobic remark.

So I was thinking about this, and since I can't be wholly objective - I'm curious what people think?

Are racism and homophobia equally deplorable...or is one more acceptable than the other? As a baseline I realize that neither are acceptable, so were talking about them in relation to one another.

There seems to be a mutually overarching intolerance concern, but apart from that there are differences between the types of bigotry....e.g. relative status of the affected groups, social integration, social acceptance, statutory discrimination, economic and educational opportunities, incidence of violent hate-based crimes, etc..... So maybe these differences justify the statement "Racism is worse than Homophobia" - I don't know.....I tend to think that they're equally deplorable and that placing Homophobia second to Racism will continue to relegated the GLBT population to second-class citizenship, even w/r/to their quest for civil rights, but there are other arguments to be made.

Thoughts/Comments?????