"Electronic Dance Music Festivals Fraught With White Privilege"

[riderinthestorm]

123. While I agree with your bigger point, you're very wrong when it comes to this case

i have an 18 yr old teenager daughter who has been to at least 10 music festivals across US and has been to Electric Forest specifically twice.

These festivals are commonly held on state parks or private campgrounds. The gateway in is very narrow and once everyone is searched and given their wristband "ticket", the only ones who would call the cops are either the festival organizers (no way would they bring in the cops on their own festival), or the partyers (never). There's no way for the police to force themselves in easily en masse.

Consequently everyone of every color is doing drugs, openly having sex and other illegal stuff. Her extrapolation that this is because this (bland electric dance music) festival is somehow off limits for mass police drug busts because it's mostly white hipsters with white privilege isn't correct. It's off limits because it's inaccessible to the police in the first place, and nobody's calling them in.

How do I know this? Unfortunately one year my daughter's ride home from Summercamp had to leave early because of a family emergency. My daughter called me to come get her and then her phone promptly died.

I got there at noon on the Monday after, while something like 20,000 people were still openly doing drugs, having sex and everything else that goes on at music festivals. Had to park two miles away since I wasn't able to get close and hiked in.

50 something mom, in her mom jeans, wading in 12 inches of mud, muck, syringes, feces, condoms etc trying to locate her daughter. Took a couple hours hunting her down.

Enlightening.

Frankly, there's no way the cops would wade into that disaster scene. It's disgusting. They waited outside and wrote (I'd estimate) a thousand tickets for illegal parking, speeding (Chillicothe is a one stoplight town and probably generates ALL its revenue over the course of that weekend), open carry in a vehicle etc. as everyone drove away. Probably wrote another thousand tickets as the festival goers were on the way in as well. Color plays no part in this.

Electric Forest is a clone of Summercamp. Rothbury MI, the site of Electric Forest, has a population of 500 people. Rinse and repeat.