It's definitely a straw man.
This isn't about minorities in that context any longer - that's the backdrop in the wider world which Krakoa exists in. We're talking about Krakoa itself, a mutant nation for mutants by mutants. Mutants aren't the minority there., they're the majority. The Quiet Council are The Man in that country. They run everything there. The X-mansion is dead, the X-men aren't teachers at the Xavier Institute and there aren't Sentinel factories in Krakoa that the Quiet Council is unleashing on the populace. They're a First World nation with mega corporations at their beck and call.
"Claiming a place in the world" is a very nice sounding phrase which could mean anything, which is easy too twist to justify bad acts - like working with cartels. They're not living in harmony with humanity, they're isolated from it. And it's not just humanity, it's not like Krakao has a booming Atlantean population.
It's not like the X-men have ever encountered any humans who have supported or help protect mutants before in the comics.
Don't downplay what activities Krakao's getting up to as if it wasn't doing the same things human governments do. The laws on krakoa are flimsy, and vague. Don't kill humans but give them injuries which will surely kill them anyway.
Krakoa would definitely make propaganda for itself. Xavier supported Emma Frost using her telepathy to change peoples minds to get voters in the United Nations. If I'm wrong tell me who outside Krakao has read the fact sheets? Who's writing them? What have the other nations said in response to those findings? Who's making the data sheets and who's seeing them? I asked you a very simple question: how many people did Magneto kill in "Magneto War," if you know the answer there would be no need for moving the goal posts. That's just one high profile incident about a mutant super-villain in Krakao, Krakao has the entire rogues gallery there.
Why hasn't Krakoa stopped producing them to stop this?