Miss Kara McCullough, the newly crowned Miss USA, a black radiochemist and beauty pageant winner, is being brutally slammed on social media for disavowing feminism and saying healthcare is a privilege instead of a right.
Kara McCullough, previously Miss D.C., is an African American radiochemist who works for the government at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
As if brains and beauty weren’t enough, Miss USA seems to be sharp when it comes to politics too
Twice during the pageant, McCullough was asked political questions, and both times she stunned with seemingly conservative answers.
Although McCullough won the pageant, she’s still being slammed on Twitter for daring to oppose radical feminism and the theory that healthcare is a right.
The judges asked McCullough if she thought healthcare was a privilege or a right and she gave an eloquent and well-explained answer. She said that in America health care is a privilege because she
She said that in America health care is a privilege because she realises that if you want to have health care, you need to have a job.
For her final question, McCullough was asked whether she considered herself a feminist, responding that she preferred the term “equalist.”
“I try not to consider myself this die-hard, ‘I don’t care about men’ (type),” she said. “Women, we are just as equal as men when it comes to opportunity in the workplace. Firsthand, I’ve witnessed the impact women have in leadership in the medical sciences as well as in office environments.”
Her answers sent Twitter into a flurry with messages supporting and bashing her conservative stance coming in.
