Daniel Hernandez reports that young people - including punks and rockabillies - are ganging up on and attacking emos in streets and public squares across Mexico.
The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city's Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There's also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere.Source: Intersections
Depending on where they take hold, subcultures that are offensive to the mores of the established culture are going to run into serious opposition. In this horrible outbreak of violence, I think that the emo subculture has been striking a nerve in the young inheritors of traditional Spanish machismo. Their reaction is to attack people that they see as a threat to their mores. The violent mob literally wants to destroy the proliferators of emo subculture.
And of course the emos and others that are concerned about the attacks are fighting back. It takes a long time for enough people to learn to be tolerant that it becomes woven into the fabric of life.
This video is from a Mexican television station and contains footage of the violence.
Spotter: The Daily Storm.
