In recent weeks, a wave of emo bashings has swept across Mexico, several news agencies have reported, fuelled by punks, rockabillies, goths, metalheads and basically anyone who's not emo.
According to Daniel Hernandez, who's been covering the anti-emo riots on his blog Intersections, the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro's main plaza "hunting" for emo kids to pummel. Then the following weekend similar violence occurred in Mexico City at the Glorieta de Insurgents, a central gathering space for emos. Hernandez also reports that several anti-emo riots have now also spread to various other Mexican cities. Via the Austin American Statesmen, several postings on Mexican social-networking sites, primarily organising spot for these "emo hunts," have been dug up and translated. One states: "I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things... My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!"...
Story with links: http://reason.com/blog/show/125721.html
― bastardo, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)
http://thatotherpaper.com/files/emos.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)
"I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself."
― bastardo, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/092907/emu.gif
― bb, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/HowTo:Kill_An_Emo
― carne asada, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)
E-M-O! V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E! HEY!
― BigLurks, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)
http://media.cellfish.com/public/6/2/4/271624/420.jpg
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)
hardman generation
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 27 March 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)
fucking bizarre
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/mexico/entries/2008/03/20/emos_under_attack.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 March 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
“If a group of young people like (emos) decides to get together and live life in a certain manner, and doesn’t hurt others, it’s the obligation of the Democratic state to protect them…It’s easy for an eccentric and easily identified minority group to be stigmatized and discriminated against…It’s the responsibility of the authorities to make sure the threats aren’t carried out and the aggressions are punished.”
Emos are by no means a Mexican phenomenon. They are yet another example of a fashion and subculture that has leapt across the border. Yes, the U.S. has its own emos, as this slightly alarmist TV news segment shows us.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 27 March 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)
when i was in Mexico City, in one of the parks, there were easily 50-100 emo kids hanging out being emo
― jaxon, Thursday, 27 March 2008 22:58 (seventeen years ago)
GOD I JUST HATE THEM SO MUCH
― 69, Thursday, 27 March 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)
somebody oughta do something
pinche emos
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 28 March 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)
que viva mexico!
― msp, Friday, 28 March 2008 01:11 (seventeen years ago)
is this real??
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)
totally!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)
!!! HOORAY FOR MEXICO !!!!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)
blame Morrissey
― gr8080, Friday, 28 March 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)
Emo’s in Chile are known as PokEMOns.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 05:38 (seventeen years ago)
On March 7 around 800 young people in the city of Querataro amassed against emos in the city resulting in many violent attacks, and a week later a similar incident occurred in Mexico City. Emos in both cities responded to the attacks by marching peacefully through the center of the cities.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 05:39 (seventeen years ago)
MAD MEX BEYOND EMODOME
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)
this is really really fucking weird
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:47 (seventeen years ago)
i wonder if the rise of mexican death metal is connected to this at all
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:48 (seventeen years ago)
guys i am feeling emo right now should i hide from my cousins
see, if emo had stayed in the vein of los crudos, this thread would've never existed. dashboard confessional, i'm looking at you. emo death race 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6hiTxo9UZQ
― msp, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)
EMO HEN, OH PHONE HOME!
― sexyDancer, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)
strangely i have a feeling the dudes that like morrissey are probably the ones beating the emos in this case
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
Travelers in Search of Mexico’s Magic Find Town of Witches and Warlocks
― gr8080, Friday, 28 March 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)
witchcraft is so hardcore
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)
hoos sounds scared http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfJZHdWmqKw
― deej, Friday, 28 March 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8132/antiemodq4.jpg
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 06:57 (seventeen years ago)
emo riot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPeffMSzVA
― jaxon, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 07:00 (seventeen years ago)