I can't believe EMO kids are being hunted down and beaten in Mexico. Basically, the heavy metal kids, punks, pop-listeners, skaters, goths, and every other subculture is having rallies in order to FIGHT AGAINST THE EMOS.
From a Mexican emo war reporter's blog:
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.
Here's a video from it. You can really see the tension between the EMOS and the PUNKS:
Anyways, I just wanted to congratulate Mexico on going out of it's way to EXTERMINATE a trend, as opposed to just simply moving into a new consumer-driven trend with a little bit of a self-loathing tone.
It's good to see that people can unite using the internet, and stand up for a cause. I mean, myspace drama is one thing, but to transform that passion into a WITCH HUNT where emo kids are beaten down in broad daylight is simply amazing. Maybe Obama should stand up agains the emos.
I think the thing that is the most disappointing about this whole re-introduction of EMO into my sphere of consciousness is that there still isn't really a definite answer on 'What emo is.' I always thought the American meaning of 'emo' was sort of ambiguous, but it's good to know that the Mexicans went ahead and set the definition EMO=PUSSY WHO SHOULD BE LYNCHED.
It's also important to take some time to celebrate your consumer self-awareness, and your freedom to express yourself without fear of one group of idiots killing your group of idiots. It's good to live in a country where we can transition from partaking in one trend to a complete new one, without having to explain why we decided to change.
I [HIGHLY REC] reading more about Mexico's systematic extermination of emos. There are even suggestions of government conspiracy.
Hilarious thread about the anti-emo movement
http://www.last.fm/group/Anti+Emo+Death+Squad/forum/28627/_/392476
LA WEEKLY BLOG post about kiling EMOS
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/letter-from-mexico-city/more-on-the-emo-attacks-in-mex/index.php
the Daily Swarm
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/mob-emo-bashings-sweep-mexicotelevis-vjs-rants-inspire-violence/
Add to my deli.cio.us
31 comments:
you need to post about the chilean pokemones
los hares krishnas lolololololololol
in my country we beat up tecktonic dancers
This is fo sho one of the best posts eva yo
EMO WAR of 2K8 is the only acceptable time to give a hoot about mexico.
brilliant. reminiscent of The Who's Quadraphenia, but way better with worse music.
as a mexican, i approve. My country never ceases to make me proud!!! VIVA MEXICO!!!
YOU THINK THESE KIDS ARE LEAVING TOO BIG OF A CARBON FOOTPRINT yo !?!?!!!
HAHAHA
the only thing that can save them now is myspace tom
lolocaust
THIS WOULD BE A GOOD POST TO KEEP ANONYMOUS
ahahah :D:D:D omg this is so great and they´re fully responsible for all this by themselves ahahah :D
how fucking stupid!
I wonder... I mean they´d all have to cut their hair and buy normal cloth, but how many will do this?
and getting your ass kicked won´t change anybodys view of life from bad to good xD... guess they all have to die =D
You're all fucking disgusting. They're just a bunch of misguided high-school kids. Get over it. It's the same as high-school goth kids, just updated.
Again, who gives a shit, people do weird things in highschool that typically disappear after they graduate and move on. It's a trend, it'll go away on its own.
You're all fucking disgusting. They're just a bunch of misguided high-school kids. Get over it. It's the same as high-school goth kids, just updated.
Again, who gives a shit, people do weird things in highschool that typically disappear after they graduate and move on. It's a trend, it'll go away on its own.
The greatest thing about the CMMNTS on this blog is that you never know if people are being serious, retarded or genius.
hahaha yeah =D
hahaha yeah =D
This is the worst plight to visit Mexico since the fearsome, bloodthirsty chupacabra-- whose vampiric thirst for blood has left countless Farm ANMLS drained.
I think the US Government should partner with Hot Topic to send relief aid to Mexico's EMOS, or sponsor Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carraba to fly to Mexico disguised as a crying Virgin Mary sculptura.. it would temporarily distract THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!
I hope I'm not the only one who watched the video and couldn't tell the difference between the emos and the punks. The violence here is completely meaningless.
I was so glad that mexicans were finally getting a sense of style, you know like, buying cute clothes, doing their hair all fancy and crazy, wearing tight jeans instead of the usual "now that you've reached 16 you can start popping out kids and not stop till the day you die" thing. on a more serious note, this is a perfect way to show the rest of the world how mexico is filled with a bunch of crazy ignorant nuts, they truly are catching up to the US. isn't this what everyone wanted in the first place?
i hope emos win
Ignorance is high.
tektonik vs emoz
i like THE mexican rockabilly
ITS ABOUT TIME!!
although, i am a bit surprised that mexico is where the antiemo revolution went down.
honestly, this makes me ridiculously happy.. the idea of emos being chased and beaten up and "killed" [im skeptic as to whether or not some of them were killed, necessarily].
but at the same time, what if this backfires? what if the anti-emo revolution turns into something like the Hollocost.. sure, tons of emos will be rightfully [emos will be "rightfully" tortured/killed, i personally believe that the jews were NOT rightfully tortured/killed] tortured and killed, but then 40/50/60 years along in history theyll only have the glory and the victory because people will change their minds and consider the anti-emo mindset "unfair" and "racist" and whatnot. and then the non-emos will have to give them compensation for all of the damages and lives lost...
i think we should think before giving them that potential future satisfaction.
I like reading all HRO bashing on the daily swarm. and the people who don't "get it" - e.g. "I think hipster runoff is being ironic guys!!!"
How many emos does it take to change a lightbulb?
give up
NONE because they are all cut up in garbage bags in my basement
- a toothpaste for dinner, like 2 years ago
Will the Myspace blog of xEteRnalsoRRow4eVaiNYOureYeZx become as revered as the Diary of Anne Frank?
I wonder if you know that most of this anti-Emo violence is actually just homophobia.
Go emos!
Holy fuck, do you fucking hipsters ever shut up? Look, the emo kids may look gay, but at least they KNOW it.
You fucking hipsters in your homo-ass fashion keffiyeh (which you know nothing about), American Apparel shit and neon nu-rave Euro-trash colors are pretentious shits and everyone in the world shits on you for looking so queer. Pull your head out of your ass and realize that everyone who isn't in your cokewhore little cirlce of friends doesn't give a flying fuck and wants to see you idiots dead.
I can't tell whos more ignorant, the entire mexican populace of or the idiot that wrote this blog.
About time, Emo is retarded, it must be stamped out! Vive Le Reveluction!
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