Mexico’s anti-emo war

Chances are you are already familiar with the term “emo”. Meant to embody principles associated with over-exaggerated emotional displays and a specific type of personal appearance, emo’s in today’s general pop culture aren’t really the most popular of groups. Seems like Mexico is taking distaste against emos to fever pitch, though.

In the recent weeks, there has been a strong surge of protests and violence against the emo population of Mexico, with demonstrations spreading across cities fairly quickly. In one instance on March 7th, over 800 protesters seeking an “emo hunt” flooded into the Mexican city of Queretaro’s town square, all seeking to pummel said hunted.

Via the Austin American Statesmen, several postings on Mexican social-networking sites, primarily organising spot for these “emo hunts,” have been dug up and translated. One states: “I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things… My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!”

Another says: “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!”

Normally I’m not one to readily associate myself with the “emo” culture, but such a pogrom seems a little too concentrated to be considered just a juvenile issue. While cultural distaste against the overly-emotional seems prevalent in the U.S. (and by media association, the rest of the world), such a strong force of aggression can’t end well for any side involved. It has happened in the past with many Europeon ethnic groups like gypsies and Jews, I can definitely see emos as the scapegoat of the less-ethnic more-clique based 21st century. Seems like political correctness got us out of the war among race, and landed us right into the war among cultural expression.

Link [via Boing Boing]