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Without trying to get bogged down in debating the specific claims you are (or aren't) making, I think the basic problem here is the way you expressed yourself, because yes, often it is about the wording. Because this place is explicitly tone policed and not content policed, tone is important. Consider the difference between "You're fat" and "I'm concerned about your health." Arguably they are communicating the same message, but one is being insulting without regard for how it's received, and the other is at least pretending to be offered with good intentions.
So with regards to saying "You're an animal," okay, I suppose a black person could, as you say, politely debate the proposition that they are an animal and not a human being, but I don't think anyone would deny that calling someone an animal is straightforwardly an insult. People here are expected to engage politely even with opinions they strongly disagree with and find offensive, but they are not expected to accept being told they're subhuman.
Granting that that wasn't exactly what you meant, if you want to discuss specific subsets of the population which happen to be majority black and argue that they are, essentially, subhuman, you can do that if you take the trouble to qualify your statement with behaviors you believe justify such a categorization, but you cannot just make a broad generalization about "blacks." Given that two mods read your original post as saying "Blacks are animals," it's fine if you want to walk that back a little, but hopefully you see why it matters what words you use.
FWIW I do -- I still call it husbandry, and mainly used the term 'animal husbandry' because people have no idea what the hell I mean by the former without gesturing at the latter. It's the same kind of husbandry men have for women, children, and domestic animals. My error was in recklessly implying that less-human hominids fit squarely into that last category when, as I say, I think they're somewhere in-between.
Obviously that is going to come off as insulting, though I think it's grounds for a really good conversation at some point if I can figure out how to present it appropriately.
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