She's always been regularly interested and properly supportive in animal/women's/human rights and stuff like that and I was very happy to find somebody regular that shared the same not radical views as I did. That's why her getting so upset about something like this is really weird and kind of upsetting for me. The way she is arguing it is that in the future animals might have consciousness like humans do but until them fursuiting is not okay because it takes advantage of their lack of consciousness and while what she says makes sense, it's just... really unimportant...
This might actually make a good premise for a science fiction story!
What separates fursuiting from blackface, though--and I can't believe I'm indulging this question--is that blackface by design is typically meant to mock, insult, or satirize blacks, while most furries would tend to say that they actually
like and
admire animals. (Not that this would stop uplifted Animal SJWs from getting offended anyway, because "intentions don't matter"...)
I'd hope uplifted Animals would tackle animal experimentation, big game hunting, factory farming, global warming, and pitbull bans long before they complained about furries.