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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: The State of Insanity
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The Mexican Anti-Emo riots..
http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...725839,00.html
Sounds like an entire culture overdosed on "Quien Es Mas Macho" crap.. 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 battles in Mexico's hardened barrios. And by its nature, the emo scene attracts followers who prefer intellectual indulgence to fistfights. In the lead-up the mob attacks, there was increasingly aggressive talk against emos in online forums and TV music shows. Blogs raved about "killing emos" and showed cartoon drawings of decapitated long-haired heads. Internet writers called on anti-emos to "take back" public spaces such as the Plaza de Armas in Queretaro, where the black-clothed teenagers sit around.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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So-called emo kids are pretty damn annoying today, as is their crappy music.
Real emo music, from back in the day, is good stuff.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Burke, VA
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Chuck Klosterman wrote a piece a few years ago about the huge following that exists to this day for The Smiths and Morrissey among Latino youth in Los Angeles. Fascinating stuff.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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I was disappointed that the All-American Rejects were emo music.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Charleston, SC
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Interesting. Now that homosexuality has become mainstream, the bullies are beating up on somewhat straight kids that dress excessively in order to prove their machismo.
I'm still waiting for someone to convince me of the nobility of humanity again, being as how it's been an age or so since anyone's trotted out that old lie. |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Noble compared to what? I definitely think we're getting better. Here's a good article on the subject by Stephen Pinker.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Edinburg,TX
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I found this interesting seeing it on the local paper's website (remember, on the Mexican border, 90% hispanic, so what is going on in Mexico is relevant news here).
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bryson Shitty, NC
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Emo as a catalyst for cultural violence.. How odd.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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I will give the Mexican DJ's credit where it's due - they're certainly not as bland as Carson Daly. |
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