Machiavelli
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Blaming the victim?
There's not a woman in the world whose first thought wouldn't be "period?" if there's a spot of blood in the bathroom she shares with another woman. When Amanda thought "period?" she of course didn't know there was a victim, because she didn't know there'd been a murder.
She knew that leaving menstrual blood around and not cleaning was the specific behaviour unnerving to Meredith, and of which she had complained with Knox since unacceptable to her. Thus she knew perfectly that it would be hardly attributable to Meredith as something "normal".
Instead she attributed it to Meredith as if a possible "normal" behaviour of hers while talking to the police (and to the public, in her letter).
This is not credible.
Malicious - to me - means the voluntary action of doing something wrong in a lucid manner, which is what Knox does as she tells a false story including a blaming of the victim.
This is your evidence that an innocent woman was acting with malice? Because she wondered if her housemate might have unknowingly left menstrual blood behind?
Because she falsely wondered - or better, actually did not say "wonder if", she assumed it was so and implied it was natural to assume so.
I guess if she'd actually killed Meredith, it would be a pretty awful thing to say -- but since we know she didn't have anything to do with what happened to Meredith, it's just a normal reaction. And to this day she hasn't, as far as I know, ever had a bad word to say about Meredith or anybody else.
You guess wrongly. It's always an awful thing to voluntarily convey a false picture of reality and portray a murder victim falsely. She blamed the victim, and turned out as a liar.
Obviously this is not the only thing she said that makes her a repulsive charachter.
In the very same "letter" she says other chilling statements. For example: the washing machine detail when she talks about Meredith, is something I found chilling.