Then again, you likely don't belong to a race that was subjugated for centuries by people comparing them to monkeys or gorillas to intentionally dehumanize them.. Black athletes in foreign countries still get bananas thrown at them on the field. I can assure you, this isn't meant as a compliment.

    Eberhardt described an experiment based on the
    Rodney King case. Participants viewed a video of
    police officers beating a Black suspect. Participants
    who saw words associated with apes before
    watching the video believed the officers’ actions 
    were more justified, compared to participants who 
    did not see the animal imagery. In a separate study, 
    Eberhardt found that people are more likely to 
    consider animal language (such as “barbaric,” 
    “animalistic,” etc.) appropriate and necessary in
    court cases of Black defendants compared to White 
    defendants. News articles describing Black 
    defendants are more likely to use animal language 
    than articles about White defendants.

    In addition, news articles of Blacks who received a 
    death sentence contain more animal language than 
    the articles of those with life sentences. “So not only 
    are Blacks associated with apes, but this 
    association is linked to justifications of violence and 
    death,” Eberhardt concluded. “It’s almost as though 
    the rules for what moral treatment is get shifted for 
    Black suspects and defendants.”