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Jokes aside, why do people see "dwarf planet" as a demotion? It's simply is different type of planet. It's literally still called a planet, a dwarf one.
It's not a demotion, it's a description. People don't say a small intestine is not an intestine anymore or is somehow lesser than the large intestine.
Is it because people think being a dwarf is bad? Is it some religious thing where evangelicals are trying to throw shade at science for "changing its mind"? If a dwarf planet isn't a real planet, is a dwarf human not a real person?
The IAU redefinition, which only 441 out of nearly 10,000 members were present for the vote for it, and did not have the six months of advance notice required by their own bylaws, and is not at all used in the scientific literature apart from explicitly talking about the definition itself, made it explicit that they do not consider dwarf planets to be planets.
STOP THE COUNT!