Today's sociopolitical thought

One idea I see often is that someone can achieve/earn/gain enough to not be considered part of whatever disprivileged group they're in anymore. I dunno. Maybe this is possible. But it's not as easy/automatic/inevitable as people think it is.

A variant I've seen, which I can speak directly to, is that graduating from a good college/an Ivy League/Harvard renders one no longer subject to racism. I went to Harvard[-Radcliffe] and I can say this isn't true. When people look at me they don't see a big H on my forehead. They see that I'm Black (that's my eye in the icon) and female and fat. Consciously or not they judge me for those well before I ever open my mouth, tell them where I went to school, etc.

I was reminded of this while reading about the latest attacks on Leslie Jones (hackers took down her website and published privately taken nudes of her). In discussions I've seen online about the abuse she suffered on Twitter, people have said that because she's an actress/a public personality/presumably wealthy/whatever other bullshit they bring up that she's no longer vulnerable to racism, that she's on the same level or above her attackers, that they are punching up because she is no longer disprivileged by being Black or female.

I wonder what the people who said that completely wrong pile of ridiculousness would say on hearing about this new round of attacks. Would they realize that she can never become unBlack or non-female, and that there are people who will always hate and attack her for these? Or would they figure she must have earned this, somehow?

I don't really wonder. I'm a Black girl too. I know the answer.