Miss Michigan stripped of title after racist tweets surface
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miss-michigan-stripped-of-title-after-racist-tweets-surface/"It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America 'MWA' that you social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content," the letter said.
It also said that Zhu no longer meets the requirement of "being in good character." "Therefore, and effective immediately, MWA does not recognize you as a participant of any sort or in any capacity as it relates to any and all events of MWA," it concluded.
According to screenshots obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, the first tweet said, "There is a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus. So you're telling me that it'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?"
"Did you know that the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks?" the second tweet said. "Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others."
The tweets were sent in 2017 and 2018, but have since been deleted.
Zhu pushed back in a Twitter video Friday, claiming discrimination against her conservative political views. "Little attacks like those really, really diminishes the value and the trust of the word, 'racism,'" she said.
Zhu is a University of Michigan student, majoring in political science. She is an avid Donald Trump supporter on social media and the vice president of the College Republicans group at her school.
She will no longer go on to represent Michigan in the Miss World America pageant in Las Vegas.
Despite the backlash, Zhu said she stands by her old tweets. "I am glad this story came to light because this is more than just some beauty pageant, this is about the prejudice views against people with 'different opinions,'" she tweeted Friday.
Yep, poor little racist right winger is being discriminated against because an organization doesn't want to be associated with bigotry.
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far more of ignorance and the kind of normal tribal bigotry a large majority from all cultures and races are both wired to by genetics and brought up with than of malice. Malice frightens me. 
The business that puts on this thing took a kid from her small, insular circles and put her on a world stage even though her intellectual attainments and cultural awareness very obviously weren't up to being thrown into that. The adult professionals who set her up for this don't have that excuse. They know the gloss of sophistication worn by adolescent beauty contestants isn't sophistication. They should have interviewed and chosen more ethically and responsibly themselves.
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were too busy deciding on the announcers' evening gowns and colors for the swim suits to get to it.
I'm old enough to remember the 1970s when, swimsuit competition and all the rest of the sexist orientation that was already being protested aside, the Miss America pageant was generally considered respectable and nice. (And if it wasn't always there was no internet to make sure everyone knew it. The National Inquirer was for people with a taste for that.) Contestants from New England often were obviously chosen to include characteristics that outweighed physical imperfections, while southern girls were typically drop-dead gorgeous. The wholesome Midwest look was a real thing, and the color barrier had been broken. We watched it every year we were home.
We haven't watched it or any others, though, since they kicked out Bert Parks, changed standards and style, and the pageant lost its no doubt illusory innocence. We then shook our heads for years at how we could miss Parks and his painfully dreadful singing. But we did, and what he'd come to symbolize.
I went to find the year of the first black contestant (1971) and found this history. The pictures are fun.
https://www.insider.com/miss-america-pageant-changes-evolution-2018-9#the-pageant-was-so-successful-that-it-took-place-annually-until-1927-the-name-was-officially-changed-to-miss-america-in-1922-3
that and thinks HR departments banning certain expressions of "free speech" in the lunch room are violating our civil rights. 
with a right-winger that couldn't get it through his head that a corporation firing somebody for being an egregious racist isn't violating his free speech.
(forgot which right winger it was, as this seems to be a common occurrence)
The person in question likely signed a contract that said he could be fired "at will" when he got hired or was in the paperwork he signed when he got hired that if he did something that cast the company in a bad light, he could be terminated.
about the principles underlying liberalism -- because liberalism is evil and without principles -- and would passionately deny that free speech had anything to do with it. Religious conservatives these days are cutting liberals -- and established legal principles -- out of the equation entirely by claiming the Constitution and Bill of Rights are God's latest addition to the Bible.
At least the right admits the wicked demons' spawn of liberalism and liberals exist. That's more than the far left will do. There're them and Democratic conservatives ...and probably some others farther right, those Trump people?
" Miss Michigan stripped of title after racist tweets surface "
" She is an avid Donald Trump supporter on social media and the vice president of the College Republicans group at her school. "
...oh, dear...
" She will no longer go on to represent Michigan in the Miss World America pageant in Las Vegas. "
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