Mexico's Emo-Bashing Problem

[RatBastich]

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.

The ugly scene, which was aired on TV news bulletins, is part of a new wave of violence against this urban tribe that has sprung up in Mexico in the last decade. The emo subculture probably existed in your high school before the term even bloomed, the latest movement on a continuum represented by goths in the '80s and alternative rockers in the '90s. In yearbooks, they're the kids who wear exaggerated haircuts and immerse themselves in moody music. In short: the kids jocks have been beating up for decades.

[Asmodai]

Homophobia + Machoismo =

[StreakInTheSky]

Stuff like this has been around for years, but this is probably the worst I've heard. Especially since they are starting to organize anti-emo rallies...

[Pinkosa]

I think is sad, i don't like emos but shit, is just insane. Some people organized a meeting in a famous plaza here in Cancun wich is like...full of emos, and they went there and attacked them, I was there but I didn't knew until we arrived there and we saw all those people gathered in the parking.

As a Mexican, I'm ashamed.

[Sev]

Don't really matter what you like or not. Nobody has the right to beat anyone up like that. I hope the mob are haunted by what they did.

[chokkan 2]

I have no idea why people always pick on someone who are different ..............


btw, I read the title wrong and thought "what the hell Elmo did ?"

[Jsmurf]

wonder what would happen if this mob ran into those Mexican mowota? 

[Pinkosa]

^lol.

some vids;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJPeffMSzVA&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OMp7Nnn7VbY&feature=related

And the comment that made me feel even worst about this:
Seriously, you mexicans are totally fucked up.

damn.

[Hakai]

And the comment that made me feel even worst about this:
Seriously, you humans* are totally fucked up.

Fixed