Anyone defending China wrt the Uighurs should have to defend why they think it’s better than what “Canada” did to their First Nations with their residential school program.

For one thing, the Canadian schools forbade the First Nations people from speaking their native language and punished infractions harshly, whereas the Xinjiang schools include the native Uyghur languages in the curriculum.

The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age.

A lot of anti-China propaganda is settler colonialist projection. They made similar accusations of cultural genocide against the Soviet Union, because they administrated regions with minority cultures, but they too sought to preserve native cultures in their schools.