AT VFR, Lawrence Auster writes in response to the idea that Amanda Knox deserves no sympathy because of her decadent life before the murder of Meredith Kercher:

It’s amazing. We live in a sexually liberated Western society, where sexual promiscuity is common, ubiquitous, and taken for granted, and then we suddenly believe that a girl must be guilty of murder, or at least that she deserves no sympathy as a murder defendant, because she is promiscuous. This is a classic example of projection and scapegoating, of society, or at least the society of Italy and the society of Britain, projecting all its sins upon one individual (“Foxy Knoxy,” the “She-devil”) who conveniently seems to embody those sins, and so falsely imagining itself innocent of those very sins.

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