AIBU to think an Edinburgh festival show about Meredith Kercher's murder should be stopped?

Do you not thing she could have stuck to the US and other places? There’s really no need for her to bring this to the Meredith’s home country when the Kercher family are so clear they don’t want it. In particular, I saw Meredith’s sister say Meredith would have hated the show while Knox has claimed Meredith would have liked it. I think that shows a fair bit of disrespect towards Meredith tbh.

Exactly - it’s prob the most known MOJ worldwide

It isn't. Because she was denied all other opportunities when she was in prison, and the outstanding criminal conviction also precludes some things even now.

The fact that she's been the victim of a colossal miscarriage of justice has indeed opened up the performance, autobiography and interview type opportunities to her though, you're not wrong there. There's a very big market for true crime! She obviously couldn't perform a show about what she went through if she'd never gone through it. You and I have never been subject to international misogynistic witch hunts, so us attempting to do an Edinburgh fringe show about our experiences of it probably wouldn't attract much interest.

It’s the fringe festival - lots of people perform there - relatively easy to get a spot for many

are you mixing it up with the Edinburgh festival?

but I don’t think she would have been “sold out” if it wasn’t her

Well… not from Edinburgh festival organisers
or literary agents

Has a crimal record - it’s a fact that affects opportunities

No longer though

Indeed

but to say she’s been denied opportunities is speculation

I very much doubt she’d be performing at Edinburgh festival without her history

We all know you can’t hold a job or apply for any when you are in prison…

Yep, which again is why I didn't say that. I don't make arguments I think are really shit.

Meanwhile, I wonder if the poster who claimed she could've done anything is going to come back and flesh that out a bit for us?

Nobody knows that, nobody in here has claimed that, and its weird that you keep banging on about it.

All clear

but you don’t know that she’s applied for
jobs and been rejected

The show is about her experience being the subject of the MOJ not the murder

and how she is going to explain it to her children - that she was a victim of our patriarchal world

satire is often used to talk about the darkest parts of our society and highlight experience

She's already performed the show in the US and it is about her experiences, her false conviction and time in prison.
She's not up there making jokes about the murder.

Satire is often used as a vehicle to address the darkest parts of our society - the show isn’t about MK murder - it’s about the miscarriage of justice the whole world watched and this women was on the end of

Obviously. The prison time and the fact that she still has a criminal conviction mean she's missed out on lots of opportunities for work. She wasn't in the labour market for several years because of being banged up, so that's a certainty.

I'm glad you've broadened this just beyond do you know she missed out on any specific job offers, as the issue is clearly way wider than that.

But none of that changes the fact that a convicted criminal whose three year sentence arose from this very case, has now chosen to turn that case into a comedy show. I'm sure many people will find that deeply distasteful alone.

Yes and she has said she takes MK murder extremely seriously

I see it more as they are two women who were let down by a society that views women a certain way and frequently murders them - this one is getting to tell her story about being subject to miscarriage of justice when it was a man who actually murdered MK- we shouldn’t be silencing this women

I can absolutely pick and choose what parts I believe, thanks. You seem to be mistaking me for a court asked with determining whether a crime occurred beyond all reasonable doubt.

On a lower, balance of probabilities basis - and noting the pattern of illegality demonstrated by the police, and that they prevented the allegations being investigated, I'm inclined to believe Knox.

if That wasn’t what were you saying… what was your point?

So You do or you don’t think AK has missed out on lots of opportunities for work, or you do?

It’s not about Meredith.

Amanda Knox is allowed to make a show about her experiences and about gross miscarriage of justice towards her (which luckily had been corrected)

Knox asserted that a policewoman struck her during the interrogation. She was sued for defamation on this basis. The courts found in her favour, implicitly confirming that she had indeed been subjected to police violence. Check your facts.

That non-sequitur doesn't answer my question. How did it imply that? If you're going to claim things, expect to be asked to back them up.