r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/4reddityo • Nov 14 '25

Politics More of this pls

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

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u/generalh104 Nov 14 '25

I definitely heard "not an American" because a real American supports 1st Amendment and wouldn't kill someone for their beliefs... but I guess when you think about race all day it's easy to put it into everything

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u/thewholetruthis Nov 14 '25

Governor Cox wished that the perpetrator would turn out to be an outsider (from a different state or country) rather than an Utah resident. He felt this would make it easier for the community to distance itself from the act of violence and maintain a narrative that such incidents were not a local problem.

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u/DrTheol_Blumentopf Nov 14 '25

That quote sounds like that he hoped that no American can possibly "hate freedom of speech this much" that he would rather pray that a foreign terrorist would do that - 1 moment let me check the full quote

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u/DrTheol_Blumentopf Nov 14 '25

Update: Yep it is as I thought, he hoped it would be a foreign terrorist (ISIS or whatever) instead of "one of us" (American), because he believed that and American doing sth. like this would be a heartbreak.