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[Bojack Horseman] Are animal puns equivalent to racial slurs?

Throughout the show people will often be offended or oblivious to animal puns. Most notably:

>"Bojack, you want to talk about the elephant in the room."  
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>"Woooow, ok. You know what. You know what. He- First of all, Wow, alright. I can't even. You know what."

Also fish are clearly another ethnicity with their own language, but that doesn't stop Princess Carolyn from saying "oh fish" in place of fuck. Princess Carolyn is also offended by a mouse tail about cats. Diane seems vary offended by a human mascot. And so on.
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We don't have enough information to make a clear parallel, but it does seem as though certain animal-related expressions which are completely innocuous in the real world are, at the very least, a bit of a sensitive subject in Bojack's world.

It's complicated by the existence of non-anthropomorphic animals, as well as the fact that the anthropomorphic ones are clearly identified as such rather than various races of humans. So whereas calling a black person in the real world an "ape," "gorilla," or "monkey" would be incredibly offensive (and might well be so in Bojack's world,) we have no reason to believe that doing so to an actual talking ape/monkey would be politically incorrect in the least.

Thus, "elephant in the room" could be exactly akin to its real-world usage, and only taken as inappropriate given the presence of an anthropomorphized elephant, or it could be equivalent to "calling a spade a spade."