Earlier today a vegan made a post with a white supremacist dog whistle by satirizing a person who's people "have been eating dog for thousands of years". Another Indigenous person and I did our best to call out the white supremacist nature of the discussion, so the poster later edited the title to specifically reference European people, which may have been well intentioned but only served to gaslight us by making it look like we were over-reacting and looking to be offended.
I came here for the leftism, and stayed for the Trans Rights. I'm a 2-spirit, native leftist. I have myriad reasons why I may or may not choose or even have the choice of veganism and any moralizing or condescension that comes from white vegans is an extension of over 500 years of an imposition of an alien value system which is profoundly disconnected from this land and the plants and animals which are our blood relations.
This seems like a poor argument to me along the same lines of the "how can we deal with social issues when there are starving people!!'. Attention and focus can be brought on different subjects at once.
Like is veganism as important as climate change? No of course not, climate change is already/is going to kill off most animals just like it's gonna kill humans. But that doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to focus on some of the smaller issues while we address the big ones too