The general condemnation of it is far, far less as are the punishments and stigma connected with the comments.
Read back on any thread which involves racism or homophobia football and you'll have a far higher % of football fans using the lame line of "it's only a bit of banter" as justification...
The hypocrisy component.
Someone calls a black player a name its the end of the world and major news.
Same black player abuses another minority and it's all a bit of banter.
I think that's the gist of the point.