It doesn’t matter if you’re a whole psycho mess of millionaire entitlement. If you tick a few race and gender boxes, social justice warriors will rally to your cause.

Here’s Mark Steyn on the Serena Williams US Open umpire abuse unpleasantness:

Miss Williams is what we used to call a "bad sport" (have you heard that expression this millennium?) and the sorest of sore losers.

The defense of her behavior by the likes of the entitled tsesarevna Chelsea Clinton on the grounds of "sexism" and "racism" and whatever other isms might be appealed to is hardly serious when you're the bigshot and you're playing an unknown girl from Japan who's half-Haitian and dark-skinned and even the umpire you're abusing isn't one of those hoity-toity Wimbledon types who used to enrage John McEnroe but a fellow called Carlos Ramos.

Had she won, Miss Williams would have tied the great Aussie champ Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles. Instead she played badly – and beating up the umpire testifies not to your greatness but only to self-indulgence and ill-discipline: it's the consolation of losers.

But so what? Aside from being singularly ill-named, Serena is merely the latest raging boor and narcissist who failed to (as I was saying only the other day) keep her head and play the game.

What made the weekend's fiasco depressing and unnerving was the reaction of almost everyone else.