Half-witted

The State Duma decided to fight emo and goths. Flag in hand...

A bill arose “On moral and patriotic education and guarantees of children’s rights in the information sphere,” developed by the Culture Committee (with the close participation of Stanislav Govorukhin). According to this project, schools cannot celebrate the satanic Halloween, which is alien to us, and teachers and law enforcement officers should pay serious attention to the fight against informals - such as emo and goths.
For my part, I am very glad that the State Duma deputies learned two new words. Meanwhile, education should not stop halfway, and I would like to finally explain to them who emo and goths are.
Emo is a youth subculture that originated from the so-called emo-hardcore (a musical style that emerged in New York in 1984). This style is characterized by the extreme emotionality of the soloist (squeals, moans, whispers), punk drive and sentimental melodies. Today's emo are the groups Used, Panic at the Disco, Mozart Season and a good dozen others. I've heard some - nothing special. However, I understand little about this, confiding in my daughter, and my daughter says that the combination of hardcore and sentiment is like a mixture of two kilograms of manure and two kilograms of jam, which, alas, results in four kilograms of manure. She learned this joke from me. She has emo friends, she once brought one of them to me on the radio - she turned out to be a cheerful, coherently speaking girl, hung with badges from her sneakers to her ears. Her hair was orange (not bright pink - that had gone out of fashion), but she had uneven bangs. I didn’t notice any suicidal tendencies in her. The rumor that every self-respecting emo should open his veins at least once in his life has the same degree of reliability as the couplet “Today he wears Adidas, and tomorrow he will sell his homeland.”
I myself am quite familiar with the Goths, since there are quite a few of them among my students. The gothic subculture also goes back to post-punk (and in general, most subcultures are of musical origin, and this, in my opinion, is better than the subculture of football fans). Gothic culture made its presence felt in the early eighties and has long been the domain of a relatively small fringe group, but in Russia it is now very popular - perhaps because there are many abandoned factories, military units, construction sites, empty warehouses and hangars - Goths love to visit them at night, photograph dark industrial romance and go on hikes in extreme places. There are relatively few of them, and I really can’t understand why Stanislav Govorukhin decided that they have something to do with sexual minorities. Perhaps he was misled by the syllable “go-”, but this syllable is also in the phrase “State Duma”...
Neither emos nor goths have ever demonstrated disagreement with Putin and the party he leads, did not participate in street marches, and did not demand increases in pensions. They do not conflict or make friends with skins, do not attract sports fans into their ranks, and do not threaten migrant workers. The celebration of Halloween also does not in any way threaten state security - or threatens it no more than St. Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day, which promotes demographic booms, or St. Patrick's, promoting the beer trade.
That is, in reality, of course, everything is clear. When Alina Kabaeva and Svetlana Khorkina, who have no idea about the history and practice of youth subcultures, are involved in youth policy in the country, it is ridiculous to expect a balanced youth policy. The State Duma in our time is generally a rather strange body, which, it seems, does not really understand why it is needed, and is feverishly trying to occupy itself with any activity - from fighting “House-2” to imposing patriotic propaganda on children. In this case, it seems that she could bring much more benefit by cleaning up the streets of Moscow. You can profane the very idea of ​​parliament as much as you like, but someday you should stop. The parliament of a great power that wins hockey championships and Eurovision can be anything it wants - harsh, undemocratic, even unenlightened - but it has no right to be funny. Parliamentarians should not disgrace the homeland of Putin, Kovalchuk and Bilan.
And if you think I'm joking, you are deeply mistaken.