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

Are you going to tell that poster to back off now @ThatJadeLion and then start a thread if the poster has the audacity to respond?

Ok dear. Now you have had your say. Hope you feel better now.

What Meredith went through was worse, for definite.

But why is what Meredith’s siblings went through worse than what Amanda went through? What happened to Amanda happened to her, what happened to Meredith’s siblings happened to Meredith, not them.

Nothing in that post makes a of comparison. It's all coming from you.

Those of us who are asserting Amanda's right to speak about her suffering in her own way are generally rejecting the who had it worst model. But if you do want to see the situation that way, I bet you've not been wrongly imprisoned for years and subjected to an international misogynistic circus. Amanda's suffering in that respect is greater than yours and those of the people criticising her for the show in this thread. Therefore as we're comparing, you should be mindful of what's happened to her and defer to her judgement of what's appropriate.

Choosing comedy as an outlet?

You couldn’t make it up.

I’m curious as to why you feel she owes anything to Meredith’s family? They suffered horribly for sure. But so did she through no fault of her own. If she was someone with a duty of care like an investigating officer, I could understand this, but she isn’t and never was.

I was just listening to a podcast where they interviewed someone who was wrongly imprisoned for rape and released after 14 years due to a dna analysis showing it could not be him and identifying the real attacker. It did make me wonder about how the victim would feel is she was listening, but ultimately it was his story to tell. He was respectful and acknowledged her suffering. But he suffered too, through no fault of his own.

Oh totally - I'd have done the exact same thing as her, at her age. You'd just assume that if you've done nothing wrong it'll all get straightened out, woulnd't you? It must have been like a slow moving nightmare.

Sure they can. Disagreeing with what someone is saying is not the same thing as denying their right to say it.

You don’t have to compare two very different traumas. What Meredith and her family went through does not negate what Amanda Knox and her family experienced. Amanda Knox does not need their approval to deal with what she went through in the way she sees fit to. She doesn’t not owe them silence.

The same media that decries her is the same media that gives her a platform and readily uses her name to generate revenue. Yet it’s only a problem when she profits?

Sure, I read somewhere it was sold out

Exploiting the fact she was arrested for a murder she didnt commit?
This is about HER experience... she's perfectly entitled to tell it.

As I said, she's entitled to monetise her experience. Other people are entitled to feel and express some discomfort around her doing so, especially MK's family.

She probably is motivated, to a greater or lesser extent, by money, and why not? A lot of money has been made off of her, so why shouldn’t she make some herself?

Her family was financially devastated by what happened to her. They spent millions, and were left deep in debt. This wasn’t money they could easily make back. If she can use what she went through to reimburse them and set herself up financially then why not? Good for her tbh.

Have you ever been to the fringe?!

What about being convicted for something she didn’t do? She can’t do that can she as she was found guilty.

its so sexist , as others have said she (Knox) didn’t act as the media thought a woman should and that was evidence enough. Bit like Joanne lees.

Are you seriously comparing suffering here? Obviously being wrongly imprisoned is terrible but it is nowhere close to what happened to Meredith and her family. Nowhere close.
Every time Knox does an interview, programme or podcast or show- publicity is created and Meredith’s name is in the media again. Her family see her name in the media again and obviously references to her murder. Whilst I sympathise with Amanda she really needs to be mindful of what the Kercher family go through every single time she brings spotlight to the case. Surely she has done enough now? When will it end?

She thought she was being a helpful witness at the time, and had no idea she’d go on to being viewed as a prime suspect, and later on probably thought asking for a lawyer would be a sign of guilt. All the housemates were asked to give their account. She was naive but this is where I have sympathy for her, it must have been extremely disorientating to be in a foreign country , thousands of miles from home and suddenly have to face such suspicion and harsh treatment with no guidance or support. She did her best to answer in Italian at first as they did not provide a translator which was ludicrous as she didn’t have enough grasp on the language at the time whatsoever.

It seems not since the show has apparently sold out.

As Ricky Gervais said "just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right". Most rational people would be offended by this, and I'd like to think they voted with their feet by staying well away from this. That would send a message!

Amanda Knox is presenting her experience, from her perspective and how she suffered as a result of being falsely accused and vilified. That is her choice , as far as I can see and have read she is only talking about her experiences. I don't think we can censor someone doing that as its their story and their lived experience.

The show isn’t about Meredith Kercher. Amanda Knox is unfortunately forever linked to Meredith Kercher, but she shouldn’t be expected to live in the shadow of her, or negate her own trauma because of other people’s insistence on comparing it to a greater one.

How Amanda Knox was depicted in the media and treated was ‘in bad taste’. Yet the same people that demand good taste, humility, and compassion from her are the same ones that extend none to her and her family.

Meredith Kercher was a victim, and so was Amanda Knox.

I'm never going to sign a petition calling for a show I haven't seen to be banned, but I can see why people are upset about it.

Of course AK has every right to speak about her own experience. She is also entitled to monetise it, whether people find it distasteful or not, it's her story to monetise. But she has been telling her story for years now, on many different platforms...podcasts, books, talk show appearances, documentaries, public speaking engagements. At what point does "telling your story" become courting publicity? Does AK genuinely have a passion for stand-up comedy as an art form, or is she simply looking for a new way to monetise her experience and stay in the public eye. After all, you can only keep selling the same story so many times. Either way, I can see why AK's determination to keep her story fresh in the public consciousness is painful for MK's family.

I think it's possible to defend AK's right to freedom of expression, along with the right of artists to make art that makes people uncomfortable, and still be curious about her motives and sympathise with MK's relatives position on the issue.

If the Knox case has taught me anything, it's don't answer a single question without a lawyer present.

Indeed. Some people believe that no-one would ever admit to something they didn't do, but they've never experienced the kind of questioning Knox faced - being beaten, unrecorded interviews lasting more than 12 hours with no lawyer present and an incompetent interpreter who thought her job was to help the police to get Knox to admit to the crime and get her to incriminate the others the police had arrested (her boyfriend and Lumumba). In all honesty, it is surprising she lasted as long as she did before giving the police what they demanded - a statement incriminating both herself and Lumumba. Many people would have caved long before that.