Nobody is calling him Jimmy Saville, that man was a literal rapist and the devil incarnate. But it’s not great, and it’s worse because he’s Paul Walker. When it’s some middling dude with no prospects who winds up with a 16 year old because they’re impressionable and fall or an older man then while it is creepy and…

Less than half his age?

Maybe this is just me speaking for myself, but I think dating someone less than half your age is intrinsically creepy.

When my college choir was on tour of Venezuela (20 years ago), several of the women in the group went swimming in the ocean off the coast and almost got sucked under by the riptide.

She was probably just going along with some white idiot’s idea (“Duuude, let’s all go for a midnight swim!”) and got herself killed.

Heard.

The ties between fascists and the state of Israel should be better known than they are. Not only is it an aparthied state that murders civilians with impunity, but Netanyahu has deep ties to Putin, AND it is actively supported by Christian white supremacists like Mike Suckabee.

LIKE FUCK I CAN’T.

No, I haven’t been, but plan on it when my mother beats her lung cancer. And once again, anecdotes don’t disprove actual, documented reality, however unpleasant it may seem to you. Plenty has been reported on Israel’s anti-blackness for years now, and if the best defense is “well, what country isn’t anti-black”, then…

Okay, but that’s your experience. Your anecdote aside, Israel has a pretty open history of discriminating against black people. Your experience doesn’t negate this reality. 

Yeah, and the election of Trump has made it crystal clear to the rest of the world that yes, America is not the shining beacon of justice it has always presented itself as, and is, in fact, a racist country found on racist ideals. Any other BS defenses of a country that passed an apartheid law in the last week?

I used “Israel” and not Israelis, so work on your reading comprehension before you jump in with your knee jerk reactions and defense of an apartheid state that regularly imprisons and harms children. And yeah, Americans are racist, considering the fact that their country was founded on genocide and chattel slavery,…

I didn’t say it didn’t happen. I just feel that there’s more to this. I’m sorry but I don’t know of many black women who are going to take a midnight swim in the freakin’ ocean 

black folks get shot in Florida, every day, though.

...and two of her friends made it back to shore so your theory isn’t 100% perfect.

Just like the U.S.  There were people who voted for the current administration and people who voted for one of the other candidates.

For real. And as for the “don’t hold the people of a country responsible for its government’s actions” BS? Who is electing these folks to office? They can GTFOH with this bullshit.

No, they are also hostile specifically to black people.

I had a similar experience my first time swimming at a Pacific beach. The dropoff was so steep that once you got near shore the receding waves would pull you right back out, and even 10 feet from shore it was too deep to stand. I was used to Gulf and southern Atlantic beaches that are really gradual.  If it were dark…