Mob Violence Against Emos Expanding In Mexico

[DudeAsInCool]

Daniel Hernandez explores the strange trend of Emo bashing in Mexico:

"A bizarre wave of mob emo-bashings is sweeping across Mexico. The movement is being generated on message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike like the emo look and attitude.

The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There's also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere."

Read more at his blog Intersections and his column in The LA Weekly. You can also find video coverage at The Daily Swarm.

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Fuggin' morons. Why can't people just leave each other alone. What ever happened to live and let live? People fear what they don't understand, I guess. When I went through my goth phase in high school, I was harassed a bit as well. I guess it just goes to show how un-civilized some people can be. Even if the mobs disagree with their look or attitude, why do they have to resort to violence? Infuriating...

[DudeAsInCool]

The Daily Swarm reports that the Mexican Emo War has spread to the border in Juarez and Tijuana:

"A confrontation in the upscale Las Misiones mall between teenage cliques of "emos" and "punks" on Wednesday night has Juárez police officials stepping in and asking for tolerance.

The mall incident, which police said might have been sparked by an exchange of words, might have been a copycat of highly publicized attacks on emos by mobs in Queretaro and Mexico City."

Read More in the El Paso Times

See the video report:

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What exactly is an Emo?

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What exactly is an Emo?

In recent years the popular media has associated emo with a stereotype that includes being emotional, sensitive, shy, introverted, or angsty It is also associated with depression, self-injury, and suicide.

Fashion

Emo is also often associated with a certain fashion. The term "emo" is sometimes stereotyped with tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe (bangs) brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straight hair, tight t-shirts (sometimes with short-sleves) which often bear the names of rock bands (or other designed shirts), studded belts, belt buckles, canvas sneakers or skate shoes or other black shoes (often old and beaten up) and thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.[13][14][15] Emo fashion has changed with time. Early trends included straight, unparted hair (similar to that of Romulans and Vulcans in Star Trek), tightly fitting sweaters, button-down shirts, and work jackets.[citation needed] This fashion has at times been characterized as a fad.

Music Influence

Emo (pronounced /ˈiːmoʊ/) is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate. In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, D.C. music scene. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington, D.C. scene and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon. (In more recent years, the term "emotive hardcore" entered the lexicon to describe the period.)

More at Wikipedia

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Thanks Dude.

Sounds like fair game to me!

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