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Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico
    #8205625 - 03/28/08 10:44 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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."

Photo: Mexican emo kids gather in response to anti-emo violence by metalheads and punk rockers.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: enesi]
    #8205671 - 03/28/08 10:54 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

:rofl2:


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: ShroomDoom]
    #8205771 - 03/28/08 11:10 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

You mean that *is* what it's about? I thought I had read the headline wrong. Nope, it says "Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico."

Wow!


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: BrandNoob]
    #8205822 - 03/28/08 11:20 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

This is fucked up. People should be able to dress and act however they want. It seems funny and making fun of emo kids is like shooting fish in a barrel, but the gay-bashing aspect makes it seriously not okay.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: BrandNoob]
    #8205840 - 03/28/08 11:23 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

I about lost my shit when was watching these riots on tv azteca. completely hilarious!  :rofl:


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: enesi]
    #8205895 - 03/28/08 11:33 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Forum rules:

The submitted news should be related to the scope of this website. (mushrooms, psychedelics, drugs in general, war on drugs, etc....)

This should be in the Pub.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #8205929 - 03/28/08 11:40 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

omg lol.  that one kid in the middle with the lip ring is like :kingcrankey:


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: THEBats]
    #8205969 - 03/28/08 11:47 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

a lot of people have had this idea around where i live, emo people are just, eghhhh


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: enesi]
    #8205986 - 03/28/08 11:50 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Each to their own but why would anybody want to be in the emo club?

I'd rather go around dressed as a clown or something.

It just looks ridiculous to be that much of a sheep that you go round with hair like that and make-up, just for the sake of following some whack trend.

All I see in that look is weakness.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico (moved) [Re: enesi]
    #8206005 - 03/28/08 11:53 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: MDMC]
    #8206010 - 03/28/08 11:55 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

shit i mean, if i entered a elevator, with 2 emokids, and it broke down, and they talked about good charlotte and eye liner for a hour, and there just happened to be a crow bar in reach, i think i'd do the same...


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico (moved) [Re: Wronguy]
    #8206036 - 03/28/08 12:03 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Oh god this is too great LOL


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: enesi]
    #8206054 - 03/28/08 12:09 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

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."





My first thought exactly.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: enesi]
    #8206059 - 03/28/08 12:10 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Extremely awesome. I approve, Mexico.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: robbyberto]
    #8206080 - 03/28/08 12:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

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.




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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: robbyberto]
    #8206129 - 03/28/08 12:24 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

I found the anti emo death squad group on last.fm... they would have some credit if korn and system of a down weren't in their top 25. but behemoth is, amon amarth is, so its almost ok.


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: wilgi]
    #8206224 - 03/28/08 12:46 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

:rofl2:


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Re: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico [Re: TurnAround]
    #8206257 - 03/28/08 12:54 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

I don't have a problem with emo people, I think they're little pussies but you know different strokes for different folks.

Funniest thing ever is when I was in college I was on a bus taking me back to the parking lot with my female friend Alex and I was going off about how George Bush was an emo fag or something like that and some dude behind jumped all over me verbally telling me emo isn't a lifestyle but a fire that burns from within while trying to hit on Alex. I just laughed in that guy's face and told him he should go cut himself and write his diary about me making fun of him while crying about everyone that hates him

Emoness is just an extension of the goth culture from when I was in Jr. High and it'll fizzle out when these kids start growing pubic hair.


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