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

[VivienneDelacroix]

Aibu to think that this show at the Edinburgh Festival should be cancelled? It mocks the circumstances around the murder of Meredith Kercher and serves it up as entertainment.

Not only is it horribly disrespectful of Meredith's family, but it also belittles the issue of violence against girls and women.

Meredith's siblings are calling for it to be pulled from the festival. There is also a petition calling for it to be stopped.

c.org/WXGTGJfpRh

It's clear that no one expected to get the play cancelled in reality, but to send a message that many think it's (at least) distasteful.

Those buying tickets have been able to send a message that they support Knox's right to express herself, and those signing the petition have been able to send a message that they support the Kercher family who are expressing their right to oppose the show.

Instead of always picking on Amanda, have you and your friend ever thought about writing to the Italian police about their incompetence and the effect it’s had on your friends ? Or campaigning against the Italian police?

Because the reason Amanda’s family was bankrupted was because of the Italian police and justice system yet you seem to have very little to say about that.

I don't know if Amanda Knox plans to do her show anywhere else in the UK, but I hope it would be nowhere near where Meredith Kercher lived and grew up.

"Always picking on Amanda"? I've never spoken about her, posted about her, or anything else about her in my life apart from 3 posts on this thread.

One movie. Other people wrote and researched them. You hardly heard from them again as they wanted to get on with their lives out of the spotlight. Lots of people are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. They don't spend their whole lives reliving it in the spotlight.

I think the reality is that Meredith's family still believe she's guilty, so anything she does will upset them.

In fact, I think that's the case with pretty much all of her critics. They think how dare she be out there in public, bold as brass, rather than skulking away in shame after what she did and got away with.

Because anyone who believes she's innocent will likely support her right to talk about her horrendous experience.

But your type do always pick on the woman and are strangely silent on the role of the largely male police force.

And you avoided the question which shows you and your friends have done nothing worthwhile.

Who's been the victim of one as globally high profile as Knox, in the internet era, with the attendant misogyny too and a continuing cohort of truthers who like to say she's guilty whenever the case comes up? If you want to make comparisons, they will need to be valid.

It’s likely the only way she can recoup the millions her family lost on her defense, in an amount of time that will allow them to actually benefit from it.

The choice of the name for the show links to the mysogeny - she’s not celebrating it - She’s drawing attention to it - I think you misunderstand

I am aghast at anyone thinking she shouldn’t tell her story and how it links to patriarchy and the conjuring up of “foxy knock” in the media - it needs to be said

Very well said - esp the intersection

She’s a comedian talking about the devastation of being subject to MOJ related to mysogeny and patriarchy, not the murder

Omg the women can’t win - do you want her to talk about Mk more?? I thought that’s what you were against

Me neither

I don’t remember Rachel nickels family or the public hating Colin stagg - on the contrary - they have sympathy for him - and he didn’t even wrongly do time

Everyone please fact check this. I know I read that food was provided. The police were accused of slapping her, but there is no evidence of this. You can read a lot of the trial transcripts (translation tools are pretty good now). The Italian police were shockingly incompetent, but it seems unlikely they would risk violence against an American student. As we know, Knox was fully supported by the US government.

I think it’s mysogeny/ internalised mysogeny, like so many of the posts on here

Unhinged!

because of a cartwheel?

The idea that the fringe is cashing in is so laughable and shows the poster doesn’t fully comprehend the setting

None of us seemed to know about it until the Kerchers publicised it

MOJ are rare thank god - I can’t think of another so high profile on an international level

they are not going on all the time as you purport

If the argument is that people should fact check, your vague claim that it 'seems unlikely' has no place in there. You can only have one of those things, not both.

Either we don't have concrete evidence of whether she was slapped so nobody should make a call either way, or we can say things seem un/likely and not pretend that amounts to a fact check.

You have made the claim and so you need to provide the evidence (which I suspect you have made up).

Knox was sued for slander by the police on the basis of her accusation that she was repeatedly slapped. She won. The courts decided her accusation was true.

Yes, the police provided food. However, they also questioned her for up to 14 hours at a time with no food or water being provided during the interrogation.

Rachel nickels partner wrote a letter to Colin stagg apologising for their role in believing he was guilty - so different - here’s a short quote

In his letter, Mr Hanscombe, 46, says: "I am sorry for the ordeal that you have endured during virtually the whole length off this very sad affair, and any part that I might have had personally to make it worse."

people don’t seem so upset about the men wrongly accused - what about Knox’s boyfriend?

the show seems to be trying to publicise the danger to women and girls rather than dismiss it

I always thought MK family were respectful but I feel differently now

Now that you've had an opportunity to read more accounts from attendees to the show, do you regret the following portions of your OP?

"it mocks the circumstances around the murder of Meredith Kercher and serves it up as entertainment"

"but it also belittles the issue of violence against girls and women."