He has a point. If animals don't deserve human rights, and humans are technically animals, then we shouldn't deserve human rights.
You're just the type of person to call others a "nerd" in spite of how your education system failed you, because you don't actually know that callong someone a "nerd" is actually a compliment, because you acknowledge the fact that they are smarter than you, and henceforth, it isn't an insult to them, but yourself!
So in other words, congratulations, you played yourself.