What are your thoughts on juggalos? They're mostly found in the western US, but I know they've spread to other places. I don't know if there has been any presence in Europe, Australia, or elsewhere.
For the sake of education, I'm posting a link to a short 20 minute documentary film. It's not biased. A documentarian simply went to "Gathering", the juggalo music festival, and filmed what he saw. I warn you, it's got profanity, drug use, and uncensored nudity. Pretty disturbing sights in general, but at times kind of hilarious. It's pretty eye opening to what goes on at this place.
My take:
I've given up on criticizing people for their tastes in music. I consider that a universal rule for my outlook. Problem is that juggalos are more than just a bunch of people who like a band and want to show it off through their dress. In general they have a mindset that I find to be ridiculous. There are gangs of juggalos that have emerged and engaged in gang activity which led to the FBI declaring juggalos a gang that needed to be cracked down on.
Now, an average juggalo would refute that by saying how diverse the group is and that there is no connection between those gangs and other juggalos; that people from all walks of life are juggalos and there is no connection between them besides the obvious one. Then why distinguish yourselves as a group? That only means that you personally like to dress up as a clown and hang out with other people who dress as clowns. They claim that anyone can be a juggalo.
I'm all for openness and giving people a chance, but if you have to buy a band's (who I think is terrible) merchandise and put on clown make up, that's exclusivity in of its self. To me it embodies exactly who juggalos are: people so desperate for companionship that they'll dress up as clowns to get it. That's fine, I'll give people a chance. Even a juggalo. However if someone walks up to me wearing clown makeup and expects me to take them seriously they would be mistaken. There's expression through dress and then there's advertising to the world that you're a walking circus.
For the sake of education, I'm posting a link to a short 20 minute documentary film. It's not biased. A documentarian simply went to "Gathering", the juggalo music festival, and filmed what he saw. I warn you, it's got profanity, drug use, and uncensored nudity. Pretty disturbing sights in general, but at times kind of hilarious. It's pretty eye opening to what goes on at this place.
My take:
I've given up on criticizing people for their tastes in music. I consider that a universal rule for my outlook. Problem is that juggalos are more than just a bunch of people who like a band and want to show it off through their dress. In general they have a mindset that I find to be ridiculous. There are gangs of juggalos that have emerged and engaged in gang activity which led to the FBI declaring juggalos a gang that needed to be cracked down on.
Now, an average juggalo would refute that by saying how diverse the group is and that there is no connection between those gangs and other juggalos; that people from all walks of life are juggalos and there is no connection between them besides the obvious one. Then why distinguish yourselves as a group? That only means that you personally like to dress up as a clown and hang out with other people who dress as clowns. They claim that anyone can be a juggalo.
I'm all for openness and giving people a chance, but if you have to buy a band's (who I think is terrible) merchandise and put on clown make up, that's exclusivity in of its self. To me it embodies exactly who juggalos are: people so desperate for companionship that they'll dress up as clowns to get it. That's fine, I'll give people a chance. Even a juggalo. However if someone walks up to me wearing clown makeup and expects me to take them seriously they would be mistaken. There's expression through dress and then there's advertising to the world that you're a walking circus.
