So in this case, "the argument" being the use of animals to symbolize ethnic groups? And that's what I don't seem to be taking seriously? I mean, just to be clear on what exactly I seem to be condemning and not respecting.

I feel like I write more in anger than ridicule, is the thing. Anger on the behalf of animals (and I kind of wonder about how sane that is), but anger just the same. And that's probably why it comes across that I'm not even going to allow for the possibility that it could be done ok. I think that I should probably be careful about using sweeping generalizations and hyperbole - I guess I'm used to reading that, and assuming that everyone writes that way on the internet. And I think it's also a problem of very short posts. In any case, I will work on that.

TBH I still don't see it as ridicule because it feels more like "this angers me so much I can't even talk about it," not... "ha ha you are so stupid and I will laugh at you." But maybe that's just how I read it, and in any case, it still means I'm not taking it seriously as a... literary device. I don't know, I really am not a fan of ridicule and I'd rather be an irrational angry person than someone who ridicules.