Conservative Beauty Queen Stripped of Her Title Over ‘Offensive’ Tweets
Posted on AllSides July 22nd, 2019
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A beauty pageant winner known for her conservative views was stripped of her title after the Miss World America competition deemed her social media content “offensive, insensitive, and inappropriate,” The Detroit Free Press reports. Kathy Zhu, a 20-year-old University of Michigan student and Trump supporter, was stripped of her Miss Michigan title one day after she was crowned. On Twitter, Zhu claimed the action was prompted by her “refusal to try on a hijab” at her college campus in 2018 and old tweets about African Americans and Muslims. In one...
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