Never has the cost been so high for identifying with crappy music
Very Bad
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 on cell 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.
Time just ran a lead story on the anti-emo phenomenon running through urban Mexico. The LA-based blog, Intersections, has been following this for a few days, and they’re a more reliable place to track both the details on the ground and the response in Mexico.
Mob violence is never good.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
What a strange scenario… I don’t really understand the uprising against the emos at all. In fact, I didn’t even know that emos still existed?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:18 am
You figure kids like that have been a force since the Cure was big, so I wouldn’t guess they’re going anywhere any time soon, though they may suffer name and minor genre changes along the way.