i would like to identify this kind of behavior as "testing the waters"

when a political being wants to shift communities they need a narrative justification to do so and will often find ways to phrase things in ways that set off their original community to see how much opposition exists to evaluate if a move is possible and as a way to start to build antagonisms with that original community to make the move look less opportunistic.

wow white western person thinks of genocide when you mention the name of a country that a bunch of retarded bigots are also upset at, let me act suspicious of them being a retarded bigot to soft signal uyghur genocide denial and see the response