Misplaced "compassion" isn't a positive thing.  And it's not a matter of 'equating', but of identifying priorities.  Example: Brenda Barnette, incompetent Chief of Los Angeles' Animal Services Dept., is demanding $800,000 to fund a study of homeless CATS.  There are about 50,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county, 40% with children, and who were employed in the last year.  Those 20,000 people helped pay this woman's salary while they were still working, and her self-entitled actions constitute an elitist slap in their faces.

I have reasons for opposing the so-called "animal rights movement" that have nothing to do with "race", although it's by no means irrelevant.  But I'll just mention one so you eagerly erect your next 'straw-man' to attribute to me:

If you're old enough to require flu shots, ask yourself what would happen if the animal rights' imbeciles got their way and there were no animal testing.  Answer, untested vaccines would be as likely to kill you as help you.