In a surprising story, some anti-emo fans in Mexico have apparently taken things a little too far. According to Daniel Hernandez, who is covering the story, the spark came first in Queretaro earlier this month. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city’s Centro Historico hunting for kids sporting “emo” looks.
By the next weekend, it had spread to Mexico City, where emo kids faced off at the Glorieta de Insurgents. There have also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere. The LA Weekly music blog notes:
In Mexico, emo culture is a butt of many jokes. It is either despised intensely or generally ignored. But it’s only the despising sentiment that lately has been getting wide airplay. In the above clip, a Televisa on-air personality named Kristoff expresses a serious dose of anti-emo rhetoric and switches to English to say, on network television, “Fucking bullshit” to the emo movement. Some emos I’ve interviewed point to the Kristoff clip as a defining provocation of the current wave of anti-emo violence.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
i have no clue wat he said
May 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
thats not cool, because I am emo and I am mexican and if I have to move to Mexico people are not goin to like me at all :[
May 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
wtf!! bullshit bullshit!! hatee dat stupid russian wetback!!kristoff can suck my balls!!*
May 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
umm r3@lly is th@t tru3…I m3@n how rud3! P3opl3 @lw@ys h@t3 on us 3mo kids!!! T^T
June 27th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Great now Mexico hates us. And I used to like tacos too.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am
i am mexican nd i am emo y cant they juss let us be who we want to be
July 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
fuckin piece of shit! he doesnt know
anything. ANYTHING!
us emos have a right. if he doesnt like it, ill rape his mom…should be fun.
i HATE fuckin mexicans. they can stay in thier own dam country and rot in hell because of thier dirty water and no food.
AMERICA AINT GIVEN YOU SHIT WITHOUT A FIGHT!
July 19th, 2008 at 2:13 am
MEXICANS FREAKIN PWN EMO ASSES!
!!MEXICANS FTW!!
Just wanted to be in the minority. I don’t really care, but this is hilarious. Crazy mexicans. Crazy Canadians. Freakin crazy ass aliens. Damn you, you took my teddy!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
So Im doing a research project for sociology and im interested in interviewing some REAL emo kids.
There will not be any compensation.
just let me know what you think.
parisbunnipink@yahoo.com
(:
p.s
Go Mexico!!!!!
haha
just kidding, voilence is bad and so are prejudice.
thank you.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
so im looking for some REAL Emo kids to do my research project on.
I need to interview some, sorry there will be no compensation.
but if you are interested let me know, Im not going to exploit you and your culture just look deeper into it.
parisbunnipink@yahoo.com
p.s
GO MEXICO!!!!
ha. just kidding.
voilence is bad and so are prejudice.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:57 am
not all the bloody mexicans are like that lets try to rember that.