Yay for EMO Bashing!!!

[Incoherent]

the anti-emo movement takes a violent turn for the better in mexico

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.
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
Mexican emos are being pounced upon, turning the band Fall Out Boy’s tongue-in-cheek song "This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race" into something literal.



The trio of long-haired teenagers grasped the plaza wall to shield their bodies as hundreds of youths kicked and punched them while filming the beating .. phone cameras. "Kill the emos," shouted the assailants, who had organized over the Internet to launch the attack in Mexico’s central city of Queretaro. After police eventually steamed in and made arrests, the bloody victims lay sobbing on the concrete waiting for ambulances while the mob ran through the nearby streets laughing and cheering. Reports from Chile of skinheads fighting emo kids occurred prior to the Mexican violence.
The attackers, catalogued as "anti-emos," include some from other urban tribes such as punks, metallers and cholos but many are just ordinairy working-class teenagers and young men. They deride the emos for being posers who are overly sentimental and robbing from other music genres. With roots in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, emo bands play a style of rock that steals much from punk and indie rock. They focus on exploring their emotions (hence the name) with a particular dwelling on typical teenage depression. the emo scene attracts followers.it is a worthless movement of pubescent girls who fancied the lead singers of bands. Apparently "gender-bending" is also one of the peculiarities observed in this "new" phenomenon.
MTV started to sell the “EMO STYLE” because they wanted something “alternative” “underground” for the kids, and as they keep brainwashing the people, hatred started to grow more and more, because what was “underground” now is fashion! they saw it sells!
The emos make a soft target for the aggressors. The vast majority are teenagers, often just 15 or 16 years old. Most are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds with little experience of the street.



Punks, goths, rockabillies, rastas, breakdancers, skaters and metallers all now pace Mexican streets, adorn its plazas and spray paint its walls. But while most of the trends have met with a begrudging acceptance, emos have provoked a violent backlash. As well as running riot in Queretaro, a mob also attacked emos in the heart of Mexico City this month. Furthermore, emos complain they are being increasingly threatened and assaulted by smaller groups on the streets on a daily basis
We’ve never seen all the urban tribes unite against one single tribe before… Emos, their way of thinking is for crap, if you are so depressed please do us all a favour and kill yourselves!”
the anti emo movement needs to get to the root of the problem-that femme from AFI and and that whiny bitch from My Chemical Romance, to name a couple. anti emos everywhere should support these riots,now is a chance for anti emos everywhere to stand up and fight for the passion in which we believe in.and lets make this riot the first of many to come.


do your part, slap an emo kid.



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[yadda]

its all fun and games to make fun of the whiney little girls but they are people too. you hate it when people diss and bash on our scene. you are just doing what you hate people for doing to you.

pretty fucked up when you think about it, people were beat because of the music they listen to.
try punching yourself the next time you turn on your favorite song.

[Incoherent]

I dont realy think many people in mainstream america even know that a rave scene still exist , they feel as it its some past trend that died out in the 90's. Have u ever talked to someone on the street about Raving? Seriously half the people ive look at me weird and say "People still go to raves?"

[yadda]

does it matter if raves are mainstream? that doesnt negate the fact that they are still people and they are being hurt for looking different.

[_bRiTt]

Originally Posted by yadda

its all fun and games to make fun of the whiney little girls but they are people too. you hate it when people diss and bash on our scene. you are just doing what you hate people for doing to you.

pretty fucked up when you think about it, people were beat because of the music they listen to.
try punching yourself the next time you turn on your favorite song.

Now I hate emo kids and the music with a firey passion, and when I heard about it I laughed. But in the end I agree with you, not really cool to diss someones music to that extreme, you don't like it, say so when asked and don't listen to it. Simple as that.

[roguernaut]

i fucking lol'd.

[jes88]

its so crazy! i was at my moms and she was watching the spanish news and they were talkin about the anti emo movement in mexico. and showed the "rumbles" and stuff.. funny stuff

[Jast3r Rogu3]

EMO is just a temporary trend, 3 years from now everybody will forget about it.

[jes88]

yeah tahts what i thought 3 years ago..

plus the scene in mexico seems so much more extreme

[yadda]

Originally Posted by jes88

yeah tahts what i thought 3 years ago..

plus the scene in mexico seems so much more extreme

i think that there is alot of resentment for American things in mexico

[jes88]

well i didnt mean it in that way.
they have punks and rockers that listen to "american" music.
they go crazy for korn

[BastardChild]

Originally Posted by *rogue*

i fucking lol'd.

I hella did, too. My dad's from that city and it hearing my grandma talk about "los emos" was hella funny, but when I watched the footage, it was pretty gnar, so I've got to agree with 'yadda'