Well we clearly aren’t, there is no history to suggest that we are, and whoever told you otherwise lied to you through their teeth or was just as gullible.
“But at least we can talk about it, therefore we can deflect any issue with our comfortable imagination of consequence free speech instead of actually pointing out the egregious history of oppression, extrajudicial execution, judicial execution, periodic and ongoing forced sterilization, cultural genocide, actual genocide, censorship, concentrated power in archaic ways, wait which country are we talking about? but we can talk about it so we are better by a standard that nobody else cares about except us!”
