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

Having s voice is one thing.

Making money from that experience is another thing entirely.

This woman seems set to eat out for decades on the back of the murdered girl. That is what is shameful here.

I didn’t sign the petition. I don’t think it should be banned - as I said in the post you replied to.

We know how gifted (or not) she is because she has hardly been a shy and retiring wallflower since her stint in prison. She’s a public figure. We know the quality of the work she produces. Why would this be any different?

I have no idea whether she has those skills or not. Stand-up isn't my genre at all. But she's entitled to do it whether she does it well or badly, and I don't see how anyone signing this petition could know how gifted or otherwise she is.

How many years ago?

The media would have faded away if she had lived a private life. The ‘media’ didn’t write two books, a tv show and a fringe show…. Amanda did. It’s tiresome.

I don’t think it should be banned. But I also don’t think she’s clever, empathetic or sensitive enough to write a genuinely funny show about this. Comedy needs a very ‘human’ side to be able to make the aftermath of a young woman being brutally sexually assaulted and having her throat cut actually funny. I am not sure Amanda actually has those skills.

But you can turn that around.
The true crime Netflix type docs are going to be made, with or without Knox's permission or cooperation (and have been).
Herself and her own family and friends will have been harangued in the same way your DP's friend was.
Therefore Knox has taken it into her own hands to set the record straight. She has done her own books and productions to regain control of the narrative built around her, which she had no control over.
I think that is her way of coming to terms with it and recover from it.

But you can turn that around.
The true crime Netflix type docs are going to be made, with or without Knox's permission or cooperation (and have been).
Herself and her own family and friends will have been harangued in the same way your DP's friend was.
Therefore Knox has taken it into her own hands to set the record straight. She has done her own books and productions to regain control of the narrative built around her, which she had no control over.
I think that is her way of coming to terms with it and recover from it.

You want to silence a victim of a miscarriage of justice because you personally think - without any awareness of what she actually says in the show - it is distasteful.

Well done yourself.

How many years ago?

The media would have faded away if she had lived a private life. The ‘media’ didn’t write two books, a tv show and a fringe show…. Amanda did. It’s tiresome.

I don’t think it should be banned. But I also don’t think she’s clever, empathetic or sensitive enough to write a genuinely funny show about this. Comedy needs a very ‘human’ side to be able to make the aftermath of a young woman being brutally sexually assaulted and having her throat cut actually funny. I am not sure Amanda actually has those skills.

They're morally reprehensible.

A friend of DP's was the victim in a brutal attack where another person they were close to was murdered.

Every couple of years or so, they get contacted by production companies wanting to do a programme about it - they bombard DP's friend, their partner, ex partners, friends, people they went to school with, employers, offering money to give details of what they were like, what happened, what the friend did next, what they're doing now, whether they look like they're having a good time. Generally followed up with threatening them with exposure of their sex life and suggesting that perhaps they were actually involved in some way if they don't take part. I don't suppose for one moment that DP's friend would find it anything other a repeat of all the trauma of the original event, the press coverage, the continued harassment from utterly amoral production companies in the pursuit of money and maybe an award, appearances on podcasts to talk about how they 'investigated' without a single mention of the threats they made (things like 'We've found this - how would you like us sending it to your 84 year old grandmother? I hear she's not too well at the moment, shall we visit her in hospital?') if somebody had later appealed against their conviction and won to then go on tour with a comedy show about how amusing some of it was.

All for profit and entertainment.

No one I love has ever been brutally raped and murdered so I cannot imagine the pain Merediths family feel, but I was assualted by a celebrity Jimmy Savile and I can confirm that the Steve Coogan series and the 28 years later film which treated a lot aspects of hte rapists life as a quirky joke profoundly disturbed me. So I do have an understanding how someone making a living from your pain causes you to relive the crime and prevents you from moving on.

Yeah and the real murderer Rudy Guede did a 16 year sentence for Meredith's murder.

He remains in Italy and faced new court action following accusations by a former girlfriend.He stands trial for alleged sexual assault, personal injury, and mistreatment.

Doesn't look like his jail time reformed him.

The problem in this case has always been that Knox places herself as the biggest victim in the whole thing, and continues to create such a circus about it all...

That's simply not true. The media created the 'circus' around Amanda Knox - largely because she was attractive, the media went all out on the femme fatale angle.

The problem in this case has always been that Knox places herself as the biggest victim in the whole thing, and continues to create such a circus about it all that I truly don’t think anything written by her about it will be funny.

In order to be funny about such an awful topic you need to be able to write - and deliver - the piece with an extraordinary amount of sensitivity and empathy to people who loved the person who was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered in a time of her life when she should have been having the absolute best time ever. The way Knox carries on, and the way she answered the question about whether Meredith Kercher would have found it funny, is just so oblivious and insensitive and unempathetic I just truly don’t think she has the skill. That was partly why she got sent to prison! She leaves people cold.

I think what happened to Knox is dreadful, and she is a victim. I just think what happened to Meredith was worse.

No, she was actually entirely exonerated. She was declared to be innocent.

You don’t know she’s innocent - courts generally rule people guilty or not guilty. Not guilty is not the same as innocent.

Whatever she did though, I don’t like Amanda Knox for the way she reacted through the trial and investigation, or how she’s profited from it afterwards - but it is her life too and she is fully entitled to do what she wants with her story.

So while she won’t get my money, and I think the show is disrespecting and tasteless, I will defend her right to do the show because that’s how free speech works, and we should protect that at all costs.

The true crime aspect of this a huge draw for many. I doubt many of the audience have bought tickets to see her ‘comedy’ but more to see a real life ‘famous’ person who was involved in a huge crime. And no I don’t think Amanda should be given any further platform to profit from Meredith’s death. She’s told her story multiple times in many forms.