Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico
March 29, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
No, really:
Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com
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.
Granted, it’s kind of a dog bites man story, because, face it, who hasn’t wanted to smack an emo around? And for the emos, it’s really a win-win because that’s one more thing to be miserable about.
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“Granted, it’s kind of a dog bites man story, because, face it, who hasn’t wanted to smack an emo around? And for the emos, it’s really a win-win because that’s one more thing to be miserable about.”
OUCH. yeah, hi. i’m emo, & i’m a Christian. i certainly don’t appreiciate your humour there. you call yourself a Christian?
See? Now we’re both happy. I get to laugh at overly sensitive people and you get to feel persecuted. Win, win, just like I said.
How again is being so *exquisitely* sensitive and pretty much completely self-focused Christian? Every emo I’ve ever encountered just wallows in a pit of how other people “make” them feel. They should get over themselves, it’s completely ridiculous. That level of scrutiny of and attention to your own emotions is not at all indicative of a solid Christian walk. How can you grow in your faith and in your relationship with God when you’re constantly naval gazing? Now, if that doesn’t apply to you (and I wouldn’t know, since we’ve never met), then fine; maybe you define “emo” some other way and you break the emo mold while still clinging to the label. But again, every emo I’ve ever dealt with is pretty much self-parodying. I didn’t invent the stereotype, I just took note of it.
Isn’t emo just a music genre? Emo being as much as a subculture as going way too far. Only an idiot would be as stupid as to “become” emo. As for the punks… isn’t emo a punk subgenre? Get over yourselfs and your little pointless cults.
Sadly, it is (or is trying to be) a subculture, emphasis on the “cult.”
There have been quite a few news reports about it.