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

The misogyny on this thread is WILD.

you don’t understand why her family might be upset about this?!

they walk among us!

That post literally says ‘I can get my head around Meredith’s family reacting as they have’. Where does she say she doesn’t understand why they’re upset?

I think she’s entitled to talk about her experience & she has done so a number of times so I agree with the above.

Well I've signed the petition. You have to wonder why she wants to keep herself in the spotlight so much. She absolutely is trying to make herself the victim and shows a disgusting lack of empathy for Meredith's siblings.

Her family have reacted in the way they have because they are upset about the show. How else should they express their upset in a way that poster can get their head around it?!

I’m trying to say this without being rude, but do you know the difference between ‘can’ and ‘can’t’? The poster said ‘I can get my head around them reacting as they have’, not that they can’t.

Talk about it, yes. But to blatantly monetise a young woman’s murder through books and a ‘comedy’ show? Definitely not. Knox loves the attention and the money.

The court didn’t just find her ‘not guilty’, they declared her to be ‘innocent’. She was entirely exonerated.

@YoQuieroVinoOops! I think this has confirmed I need glasses because I read that wrong and small text has been looking a tad blurry!

Im still confused why people who sign the petition should feel ashamed though?

Nope- AK was definitely involved in the murder - if you remember the original trial and the evidence against her. However she has a Netflix doc and more which skews public opinions toward her in a positive way.

I literally said that I can get my head around (understand) the family's reaction. No idea what your issue is.

No, she wasn’t. I haven’t seen the Netflix documentary, but I have seen the judgement of the court in which they entirely clear her, declare her to be innocent and state that there is absolutely no evidence that she committed the murder.

Why are you determined to blame an innocent woman for this crime?

She was not involved.

@11AndCountingI read it wrong & apologise but why should people who sign be ashamed?

The internet contains people who really really liked the idea of a pretty, sex crazed orgy murderess, if you know what I mean. Maybe he/she/it is one of those.

Tbh her unlikeable nature is kind of thr point. It's what got her arrested in the first place, that and having a sex life.

The black guy did it!

And the white American girl got locked up for years for something she didn't do.

"Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of involvement in the murder"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Knox#Acquittal_and_release

She was completely exonerated of the crime.

She’s unlikeable, self-obsessed and has zero class - but then she’s American so that’s par for the course.

Nice bit of nationalistic prejudice there. @MNHQ is that allowed?

Well said.

And the internet is so large that no matter how bizarre and incorrect your belief is, there will be a group that agree with you.

DP's friend did. And does every time one of them gets in touch after the usual ignoring and blocking doesn't make them go away.

Nobody cares.

Eh? Why are you pretending that Mojo wants to silence you?

She literally says ‘People can say things that make others unhappy. It's a broad church - there are things that make me unhappy that you won't care about and vice versa’

Do what you want!