Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico! Should Mexico have laws against discriminating someone based on their music-based subcultures?

Attention all Emos! This is crazy on so many levels. There is actually an "Emo Rights" movement in Mexico. A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids, and possibly MCR fans began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.

The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana's emo kids to stay away from the town's fair next month.

Many of the attacks have been planned, or at least fomented, on violently anti-emo websites like Movimiento Anti Emosexual, which features videos of physical violence sprinkled liberally with anti-gay sentiment. Last.fm's Anti Emo Death Squad group has almost 4,000 members.

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