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Plus the parallels that people have drawn between the Faunus and the African American Civil Rights Movement.

I mean, c'mon... Black people were sold as livestock, when they were slaves. Even after slavery was outlawed, they were referred to as animals, and children were told that black people have tails. During the Civil Rights Movement, one of the things black people did was wear a sign that said "I am a man" in protest of being referred to as an animal, as sub-human.

In the very first episode of the show, we're shown an image of Faunus holding a protest, and one of them had a sign that said "We are not animals" on it. Cardin and Roman have both referred to Faunus as animals. Despite them still being quite humanoid and barely different from Humans themselves, there are people who refer to Faunus as animals, thus referring to them as something sub-human.