Miss Michigan Loses Crown Because of Racist, Islamophobic Tweets

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MAGA Twitter is enraged at officials of the oldest international beauty pageant for dethroning a beauty queen after racist and Islamophobic tweets surfaced on the Twitter account of a Trump supporter and reigning Miss Michigan.

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Organizers of the Miss World America pageant dismissed Michigan winner Kathy Zhu for what they called โ€œoffensive, insensitive and inappropriateโ€social media content, according to a letter and texts from the organization posted to Twitter by Zhu, whom the Detroit Free Press called โ€œa well-known political commentator and online figure.โ€

https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1152044590645616640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Think Progress reports that the 20-year-old serves as the vice president of the University of Michigan chapter of the College Republicans and communications director for the Chinese Americans for Trump Movement, while Zhuโ€™s Twitter account reports that the Zhu is kinda racist.

โ€œDid you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks?โ€ Zhu wrote, in one of the now-deleted Tweets, according to the Detroit Press. โ€œFix problems within your own community before blaming others.โ€

โ€œThis applies for every community,โ€ Zhu explained to the Free Press after the tweets surfaced. โ€œIf there is a problem, fix things in your own community before lashing out at others and trying to find an issue there. That is all I wanted to say. It is not a problem against black people. Obviously, I am not racist or stuff like that.โ€

I agree with MAGA Miss Michigan. I honestly donโ€™t see why those comments should be considered racist, although Zhu conveniently left out the fact that the vast majority of white murders are committed by white people, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. But Iโ€™m sure Zhu has tweeted a lot about white-on-white crime. Let me go check.

Well, someone must have obviously deleted those tweets...

โ€œOr stuff like that.โ€

But Zhu didnโ€™t just tweet out a few anti-black talking points used by every white supremacist with an internet connection. Zhu extended her bold bigotry to Muslims, too, as Think Progress explained:

[O] ne of the now-deleted tweets in question stems from an incident in February 2018, when Zhu was a freshman at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. Zhu reportedly sprinted away from a Muslim Student Associate table on campus after a fellow student offered her a chance to try on a hijab, a head covering many Muslim women wear, as part of a World Hijab Day celebration.

โ€œThere is a โ€˜try a hijab onโ€™ booth at my college campus,โ€ Zhu, who is Chinese-American, wrote in a now-deleted tweet. โ€œSo youโ€™re telling me that itโ€™s now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?โ€

In a separate tweet, Zhu criticized a sign at the Muslim Student Association table that said โ€œMy hijab empowers me.โ€

โ€œThe hypocrisy of this is kind of disgusting,โ€ Zhu reportedly tweeted at the time.

And then thereโ€™s this one.

https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/937008258308489217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

After she handed in her cubic zirconia crown, the hashtag #standwithkathyzhu took over Twitter. OK, only six people used the hashtag, but you know how Twitter suppresses conservative voices. Plus, when you consider the Disney Mermaid atrocity of 2019, the danger of Democrats instituting socialism, how hard it is to find a good pair of flag-emblazoned running shoes and the invasion Mexican toddlers crossing the border to take all the jobs, conservatives have their hands full trying to making America great again. But they were still angry enough to somehow twist the narrative into believing that Zhu lost her title because of her political beliefs while the pageantย forced her to wear a hajib and banned from performing math on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/velvethammer/status/1152246579803447296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/DJNYified/status/1152204764400275457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/applegate_frank/status/1152696237944135680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

And of course, there were those who insisted that Zhu canโ€™t be racist because sheโ€™s Chinese-American, which is like saying Hitler wasnโ€™t a racist because he had Jewish and black ancestors.

However, I donโ€™t understand why Zhuโ€™s supporters are upset. I believe the pageant organizers handled the situation by using the principles of Trump and his conservative supporters. Zhu made public statements that some people thought were un-American. Therefore the people in charge did the only thing they could do in this situation:

They sent her back.

Now that is a thing of beauty.

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