Thank you for the kind upvote @fulltimegeek it should really help to catch allot of peoples attention so they can zero in on the 'man or other animal' conundrum, which is a world-wide conspiracy.
Evolutionary theory should not be thrust upon people in harmful ways, just as religion shouldn't be. Calling men animals in the U.S. is equally as dangerous as being called an infidel in a middle eastern country.
They are depeopleizing terms, I say depeopleizing instead of dehumanizing because the legal definition of the term human, that too is tricky business.
human being. See monster.
monster (mon'stėr). A human-being by birth, but in some part resembling a lower animal. "A monster . . . hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any land, albeit be brought forth in marriage; but, although it hath deformity in any part of its body, yet if it hath human shape, it may be heir." 2 Bl. Comm. 246.
- Ballentine's Law dictionary (1949). (save this document)
This whole conspiracy is like the divine right of kings all over again. Yet instead of claiming superiority, they are under their breaths casting the aspersion (or spell) that the defendant is an animal. When this is not rebutted they treat him like one by putting him in a cage.