Name: Who does Amanda Knox blame?
Uploaded: 2019-09-12T21:34:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Who does Amanda Knox blame?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Who does Amanda Knox blame?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-12. Transcript available.

you know, after your whole experience through, you know, being incarcerated and
accusations and everything, do you, where does, do you have like, who do you,
who do you blame
the most, do you feel like? Oh, hmm. I think you might be surprised that, you
know, as much as like
the blame game was happening at me. Um, I don't really think of it, um, in
terms of blame. Um,
you know, I don't, I, I had a long time to like sit in my cell and wonder why
this was happening to me.
Um, and you know, that's still a question that bothers me. Like just why me,
why me of all
people in the world to have this happen to them? Um, why? Uh, and I don't have
a sufficient
answer for that, but I don't think that it's a specific person that I feel the
need to blame.
I think, um, human beings fail to see each other all the time, every day. And
it's not like it's
someone's fault. Um, you know, I'm trying to like, one thing that I'm doing
right now is I'm trying to
reach out to my prosecutor because, you know, the, the easy and automatic
response to any of
these situations is to be like, fuck that guy. He's, he's a bad dude and he did
something bad to
me. Right. But I've never found that to be a very satisfactory, um, answer to
why it doesn't answer
my why question. Uh, yeah. You know, like it gives you like kind of a, like a
cane a little bit,
but it doesn't really give you like a real place to stand kind of. Yeah. And I'm,
I don't know if
it's just my disposition, but I don't like lashing out does not feel satisfied.
Like doesn't satisfy
me in any way possible. I think I remember like one time wanting to like punch
a pillow once and I was
just like, Oh, and it was like for some stupid thing, like maybe like, uh,
traffic or something.
And, and, and, and I was like, Oh, that's what everyone's feeling all the time.
Wanting to like
punch something like now I know what that feels like. Um, so I don't know. I, I,
I, was there like a,
but I, I guess, I mean also like in a sense of like, was there a group that are,
and not even a
specific group or person, but was it more like the, the country? Was it more
the, um, was it more the,
uh, the media? What was it? The news? Was it the, the police, um, there that,
that was the thing
that you're like, they, it seems like they were the ones that kept the ball
rolling because it seemed
bizarre that you were going through all of this. I think from, you know, I
consider myself just kind
of an every man. It seemed like, like you didn't seem like somebody that would
kill someone to me
easily. And even with the, with the information from the case, but you, but you
probably displayed
behaviors where I was like, Oh, if I think, you know, she seems like someone
that's a, you know,
unique or aloof or whimsical. And I could see that kind of fitting, like
obviously a wild story. Um,
but was it more the media that kept you that, do you think one of them
influenced more of the fact
that you were, you were stuck there for so long that you had to go through all
of this? Do you think?
Um, I think that it's like everything. It's a lot more complicated than it
would be nice if it were,
because it's a combination of factors. It's a combination of the law and like
what, what was
legally allowed, what the police were legally allowed to do with, uh, do to me,
were they illegally
allowed to psychologically torture me in an interrogation room? Well, yes and
no. Um, were,
were they, are they human beings? And is their instinct to, um, feel
confirmation bias and to only see what
they want to see and sort of ignore or disregard things that don't go with
their pre with their
prejudice? Like these, these are all factors that came into play. And I can't
just pinpoint
one reason why it happened. You know, it's a lot of reasons.
Do you feel like that they, that they started to think that it was sexy that
they had not sexy,
but that it was, uh, you know, uh, there was, it was, I think sex played a role.
Um, but again,
not just for one person because like there's the journalist who goes, here's
this, like here are
two fresh faced young women and, and now it's sex on like girl on girl crime
and that's sexy. And then
on the other hand, there's a, you know, uh, some police officers or prosecutors
who are looking at
a crime scene and looking at a body and seeing that there were signs of sexual
violence. And so
getting this like sexuality in their head and coming from a different culture
and a different time
than I was and, and, and having prejudgments about my own sexuality or the way
that my sexuality even
appeared to them because they didn't even really know what kind of sexual
person I was. They just
kind of assumed things based on the fact that I was an American girl. Right. Um,
and so there's a lot
of that that goes into play. Do you think that they start that the, that the
police there started
to kind of get off on the attention that they were getting at a certain point
and played into their
own, like almost like they would keep up things, keep up the narrative and not,
and you know, not veer
off and not even want to veer off because it gave them, it almost romanticized
their position. That's
what I'm trying to say. Um, I think it probably had more to do with them
wanting to protect or,
um, you know, they, they wanted to maintain that they were professionals with
integrity and when
their, when their humanity came into play, when their prejudices came into play,
when they made
mistakes, um, like many of us admitting that they had made that mistake, like
they, they can say
like for, there's this cognitive dissonance where they can say, I'm a
professional and I'm acting
with integrity. And, and in a certain moment for some people, like they get on
the defensive and
they say that, therefore I cannot make a mistake. Like, how can you point to me
and say like, I'm a
professional with an integrity. How can you tell me that I made a mistake? And
it's like, well,
I'm sorry, you, you made a mistake. Right. It's okay. You made one. Yeah. But
like it became an
issue. And then it became, became the blame game. Like very quickly it became,
well, whose fault is
like, this is a fucked up situation. Whose fault it is like, whose fault is it?
And under what light
can we cast, like how fucked up the situation is? Because we start with this
death of a young woman.
Yeah. And there, there's no escaping that this is a tragedy. And this is, this
is the story of young
women throughout history being targeted and abused and, and murdered because
they're really taken,
they've taken it some hours over the decades. They have. And, and like, and so
we start with that
and then it becomes a tragedy on top of a tragedy on top of a tragedy and, and
how the focus gets turned
from one thing to another. Could you see how they transpose that? Or did you
think that they just,
it was mostly just malicious? I mean, I think that, um, most of it was some, uh,
something that people
were projecting onto me and I was a convenient canvas for that. Um, because
nobody knew who I was,
right? Like I was a nobody. And so that meant that I could be an anybody. And
then once people decided
what that person was like having that be corrected, like, uh, you know, yes,
you, you see me right now,
I'm, this is how I am. Um, and, uh, I, I honestly feel like a lot of the
negative things that people
have felt about me have been a projection of their, some, something, some kind
of like nightmarish
imagination that they have, they've just projected onto me. Um, because again,
it's like a confirmation
bias, you see what you want to see. And if you want to see, like someone could
look at me right now and
say, Oh, I'm sitting here, I'm daring to sit here, like talk, talking to
someone as if like, I am not
a fucking murderer and like me, I'm just constantly like just my very, like a
lot of people feel that
my very existence is an affront to Meredith's memory. And that like the very
fact that people
even know my name and, and know that I exist is an offense that I am, that I am
committing
against Meredith's family. And so like when my own just existence is a problem,
like anything can be a
problem. Right. So, Oh, it must be such a, is it sometimes a battle to get
going every day in some
ways? Like, or is it like, uh, or does some days it just kind of, you kind of
have moments where it
just, you forget that not forget, but I never forget. Um, I don't think I'll
ever forget. Um,
but my life is not just what other people think of me. In fact, the majority of
my life is not that
the majority of my life is who I love and, and, and what, what work I'm doing
because I love the work
that I'm doing. Um, it's the question of now what? And, and the most, the
beautiful thing about my life
right now is I'm, I can ask that question. Um, and I suppose that the question
never fully went away.
Even in prison, I was thinking, well, I guess this is my life. I didn't think
this was going to be my
life, but how do I like, how do I live my best life? And so brave. I don't know.
I mean, it's that or kill yourself. Like it's good evening. Good afternoon. And
other times.
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