Wow, I Thought Took Music Seriously

Rockabilly, punk, and metal fans are rioting against emo kids in Mexico? I want to laugh at the ludicrous nature of it*...but these are actual kids getting hurt, encouraged to kill themselves, etc. This kind of thing shouldn't surprise me...but for some reason it does.

Mexico's Emo-Bashing Problem (Time)
Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico (Wired)

*I'd even planned on putting a joking headline to this like, "Wow, I didn't know Julie had moved to Mexico"