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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
That feels like a distinction without a difference.
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The character who is using "cattle" as a shorthand for beings which exist to be exploited is portrayed as a very bad person, as shown in the quote. So someone who thinks it's immoral to exploit cattle shouldn't have any reason to object to that passage.
The second quote portrays an English nobleman as a very bad person, but there are several English nobles in the book who are
not terrible people.
However, I'll concede that the first book might not fit Quoth's criteria. The Hauptsturmführer is portrayed as a bad person not just as an individual but because he is a Nazi, and is working for a Nazi organization. And there are no good Nazis in the book to offset the bad Nazis. So Nazis would have reason to find that description offensive.
I would hope most authors and publishers would be fine with offending Nazis, of course.