Find me an anti-racism activist who does some animal welfare work on the side, and I’ll happily exempt them from my side-eye.
Keep in mind the context that post was made in:
https://twitter.com/gloomipede/status/1314363268316696583?s=21
“Even more shocking”.
https://twitter.com/freeyourmindkid/status/1206937838597627905?s=21
There is a long and constant history of (a) white Americans demonstrating far more concern for the mistreatment of animals than the mistreatment of Black people, and (b) animal rights campaigners being horrendously racist.
In the thread that I linked earlier, how far down the comments do you have to go before you find one expressing concern for the dog while completely failing to mention the Black man?
OTOH, this is not a thing that is unique to America.
Which, of course, is not an argument that the defence of animals is intrinsically racist. But the failure to defend non-white humans absolutely is.
