stay the FUCK outta Mexico, EMO kids.

[hyp]

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/anti-emo-riots.html

 :'( :'( :'(

Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico

Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to ... defend emo kids?

A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.

The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana's emo kids to stay away from the town's fair next month.

But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.

"They're organizing to defend their right to be emo," wrote Daniel Hernandez of LA Weekly on his personal blog, which has provided stellar coverage of the whole affair.

Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico's major cities for decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the streets. In response, many of the established so-called tribus urbanas like punks and metalheads are responding with violence. The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell's Angels fighting hippies at the Altamont Music Festival or the Mods taking on the Rockers.   

But while videos of Mexican teenagers with pompadours advancing on equally baby-faced emo rockers seem like scenes from a south-of-the-border version of John Waters' Crybaby, there are ugly undercurrents to the story.

First, by some accounts, the emo subculture is identified with homosexuality in Mexico. As Mexico City youth worker Victor Mendoza told Time.com: "At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that."

Gustavo Arellano, the author of Ask a Mexican and an editor at OC Weekly, said that the sexual ambiguities cultivated by emo fashion helped set the group up for targeting by more macho groups.

"What do you do when you are confronted with a question mark about sexuality in Mexico?" Arellano said. "You beat it up."

Forum posts show similar sentiments. One person wrote on a government youth-website forum, "detesto a los emosexuales," which translates as "I hate emosexuals." Emosexual is an obvious play on homosexual, especially in Spanish, where the H is silent.

Many of the attacks have been planned, or at least fomented, on violently anti-emo websites like Movimiento Anti Emosexual, which features videos of physical violence sprinkled liberally with anti-gay sentiment. Last.fm's Anti Emo Death Squad group has almost 4,000 members.

But Arellano said he thought the riots could have a positive impact here in the US.

"It's a great clusterfuck for the American mind's idea of Mexico," Arellano said. "This teaches the rest of the world that Mexico is not just a bunch of cactuses and sombreros."

[Smooth Groove]

Early April Fools joke?

[Joe Molotov]

Abrader, you may want to avoid sporting this look on your next trip south of the border.

[Trent Dole]

Emo fegs are so lame that even goth fegs despise them. 

[drew]

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[demi]

WATCH OUT MUPEPE

[Mupepe]

[BlueTsunami]

Oh god, as if Emos needed more of a persecution complex

[rodi]

Wow, that sucks for them.

[Eric P]

the issue is that this is essentially large scale supposed homosexual bashing

they're attacking people who dress a certain way because they're supposedly gay, which isn't cool at all

[Madrun Badrun]

I thought all Mexicans had black hair, so how can they pick out the emo kids.   

[drew]

The one kid in the second video looked like Fonzie. Is Fonzie emo now?

   You mean the guy in the brown leather jacket @ 1 minute in?  Nah, he's with the punks.  Story goes the punks are pissed at the emo kids for biting their style, that guy is just latching on to the shitty punk kids in the spirit of the lynch mob - despite being on a whole other level of elvis meets the Fonz fuck awesome.


I also love how they say emo, "ehmos, ehmos, ehmos!"    Mexico

[rodi]

I thought all Mexicans had black hair, so how can they pick out the emo kids.   

That's the Chinese, you fucking racist.

Oh fucking christ. 

[rodi]

You hurt my feelings, you asshole. I hope your happy.  :'(

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[Mupepe]

Those fucking emos need to learn how to fight back.  Beat some beaner reggaeton ass!

And so instead of mexicans being full of cactuses and sombreros, it's full of homos and bigots?  awesome.

[Madrun Badrun]

You hurt my feelings, you asshole. I hope your happy.  :'(

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Your Chinese shows in your use of a firing squad. 

[Bloodwake]

Wow, unbelievable.

[CrystalGemini]

You hurt my feelings, you asshole. I hope your happy.  :'(

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Your Chinese shows in your use of a firing squad. 

hahahah  rodi has hecka slanty eyes IRL too!   

[bork]

If any one group of fakers should get beaten up, it's those rockabillys.  Holy shit at those haircuts!   

[drew]

If any one group of fakers should get beaten up, it's those rockabillys.  Holy shit at those haircuts!   

Don't hate, appreciate.  Guy has to have balls to rock the Fonz in 2008.   

[Tauntaun]

From: http://emosexualesenaccion.blogspot.com/



 

I can't stand emos but this whole gay bashing thing isn't cool.  If it was just plain ol' emo-bashing then I think the police would probably be whooping some emo ass too.    As it stands now though the metal scene of America can not support this act of violence.  (Yes I am the spokesperson.  )

[pilonv1]

maybe they were doing this dance?