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No. A person may donate heavily to cure rare diseases in cute puppies without believing that puppies should have the vote.
It wasn't my point that the racists and the donors are non-overlapping, though — rather that they are not necessarily overlapping, and that the overlap — if it exists — should not be taken as defining the whole population. (Which is what the "But they're racists who ..." statement does.)
There are probably people named Muhammad Wang, after all; just not very many of them.
(I don't think there are any Hasidic parrots, though.)