That Cunningham woman

 Sophie Cunningham is all over social media again, and not because she pointed at someone or said girls sports should be protected from trans women, which is kind of like saying girls sports should be protected from Puff the Magic Dragon, but, OK.

No, sir. This time it's because she got clotheslined by Djonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky, which got Carrington properly ejected with a Flagrant 2 and got all the keyboard  warriors stoking the fires of a racial animus they say is rampant in the WNBA.

It's not, but the warriors' frankly racist narrative -- that clean-cut straight white girls are being targeted for abuse by animalistic black lesbians -- continues to have legs, because never underestimate the staying power of manufactured grievance.

"White privilege," Carrington, who is black, tweeted after her ejection, which of course only stoked this particular fire.

"Black privilege," fired back butt-hurt former swimmer Riley Gaines, who's whiter than Wonder Bread.

Apparently this was Gaines' way of saying, "I can even more ridiculous than you."

Look. I've watched the video of the Carrington foul half a dozen times, and I don't see a deliberate mugging. I see Carrington making an awkward swipe at the ball as Cunningham drove to the rim, and then lowbridging her on the follow-through. I see a reckless and potentially dangerous foul, which was why it drew a Flagrant 2.

This is basically what Fever coach Stephanie White said postgame, for which she of course was vilified by the keyboard crowd because it didn't play into their preferred storyline. According to them, this couldn't simply have been Carrington being Carrington, given she has a reputation for brutal takedowns. This was Carrington punishing Cunningham on behalf of the "woke" WNBA because of her alleged transphobia.

(Which has been overblown, too, by the other side in the culture wars. Just to show they're all off their meds.)

Anyway, according to the keyword crowd, Carrington was Luca Brasi and the league was the Godfather, sending her out to take care of the "problem." Riiiight.

Rational deduction quickly laughs this scenario out of the room, even if rationality has fallen out of favor these days. Regardless, its message remains: Carrington has an established rep as a dirty player, and Cunningham isn't exactly a shrinking violet herself. Last week she caught an elbow to the jaw because she was aggressively bodying an opponent looking to make a pass; last season, of course, she did this to Jacy Sheldon of the Connecticut Sun.

So: One clothesline vs. one out-and-out tackle. Seems like a tit-for-tat cheapshot tie to me.

Of course, I don't have an agenda to sell.