A Comment I Wrote Regarding the "Anti-Intersectional," "Veganism is only about non-human animals!" Kind of Outlook

Anti-intersectionals are also neglecting the fact that, even if we are to argue that veganism is exclusively about non-human animals in some sense, unlike many other justice movements, veganism is the only justice movement in which the oppressor class solely comprises the movement's voice. To give a comparison, many feminists are women, many racial justice activists are BIPOC, and many LGBTQ+ rights activists are queer, but not a single vegan activist is a cow, a pig, or any kind of non-human.

This means that the "vehicle" for the vegan movement will always be made up of humans, so there, by default, must be some baseline of accepting certain human rights stances in the movement. If there is not unequivocally condemnation of transphobia, for instance, there could be discomfort for trans vegans doing activism, which would actually harm the movement and weaken the cause for animal liberation.

To give another very topical and relevant example of how this could manifest, I can't say that I'd expect the Palestinian diaspora who are vegan to be happy with the ethnic cleansing of their people being given a pass in the name of "rejecting intersectional veganism and keeping the focus on the animals." Despite this, we've seen this exact kind of rhetoric supported and favored to a disgustingly eerie degree within the vegan community.