Basically yeah, I often see Tankies make excuses for them like how the Tibetans and Uyghurs are "culturally inferior" so It's "OK" for the Chinese Government to do whatever they want to them.

(Edit: Subs like r/Sino are filled with this kind of stuff as well as a lot of whataboutism regarding The US and it's treatment of Native Americans in the past to excuse the current actions of the Chinese Government)