I don't see what so special about that, there were many such protests against people from the right side of the political map or even people who just perceived

I don't see what so special about that, there were many such protests against people from the right side of the political map or even people who just perceived as such. There are such protests against Israeli speakers or students and other issues where you got a billion of people on one side of the argument and only few millions on the other side. Sometimes it is just a numbers game and there are much more Chinese than Uyghur.