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This reminds me of this post I made, in which I respond to this black carnist complaining that white vegans don't care about animals and are racist.
As a black vegan, I don't take any complaints about the dynamics of veganism, regardless of the vegan's race, seriously if it comes from carnists. In other words, she, as a carnist, even if one of color, has no footing to discuss how intersectionality works among vegans. It'd be like Candace Owens trying to make a complaint about how white feminists aren't intersectional enough. Yeah, that's not wrong, but the take coming from someone like Candace Owens would be hard to take seriously from her own mouth because she doesn't support feminism period.
If she were a black vegan saying something like "White vegans misunderstand vegans of color", then maybe it'd hold weight, but she's a black carnist trying to accuse white vegans of being "pushy" and says that if a BIPOC vegan is "pushy", they're perpetuating "white vegan supremacy". Her complaints aren't about "white" veganism. It's about vegans calling out her speciesist bullshit period, because no matter the color of the vegan who calls her out, she'll find a way to complain about it and say "I'm actually just mad at white vegans! By the way, if you're a BIPOC vegan who has a backbone in supporting animal liberation, then you're acting like a white vegan! I'm totally fine with BIPOC vegans, though! They just have to avoid policing my funding of animal slaughter because that's a white vegan thing to do! Tee-hee!"
The notion that "Ethical veganism is a white thing." is disgustingly racist because it's saying that only white people can truly care about animals, and my black vegan ass sure does care so fucking much about animals that I have to control my rage whenever someone makes that awful take.