Many in the social justice tribe clutched their pearls and feigned outrage this week over the leaked details of basketball phenom Caitlin Clark’s paltry salary — compared to NBA players — after she was drafted by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever on Monday night. They claimed sexism. They claimed misogyny. They blamed everyone and everything except the people who were largely responsible for this salary discrepancy: themselves.

For example, consider a post from the 1619 Project author, Nikole Hannah-Jones. A regular purveyor of hyperbolic hysteria and agenda-driven misinformation, Hannah-Jones jumped into the social media conversation regarding WNBA salaries. She said that “women deserve better.”