You can’t make shit like this up.

Via Exclaim:

Chances are if you aren’t emo, you hate emo. But you likely don’t hate this straight-haired, massacre-lined subculture as much as the Mexicans do. In recent weeks, a wave of emo bashings has swept across Mexico, several news agencies have reported, fuelled by punks, rockabillies, goths, metalheads and basically anyone who’s not emo.

According to Daniel Hernandez, who’s been covering the anti-emo riots on his blog Intersections, the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro’s main plaza “hunting” for emo kids to pummel.

In talking about this I have received a wide range of reactions - most start with laughter, and while definitely surreal it would almost be a great thing if I didn’t feel bad for the emo kids getting their asses kicked for liking music [everyone else hates].

But they still love music right, shouldn’t that count for something?

More at Exclaim from whom I also snagged the Spanish news report below [kind of insane].

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