Kathy Zhu is an intelligent, global-class beauty, worthy of being crowned Miss World. Now, she’ll never get the chance.

Her goal of achieving national and international beauty-pageant stardom — to join a rarified realm in which ladies are best advised to shake their booties, not their brains — was dashed last week when she was conservative-shamed by officials of the Miss World America Organization.

Born in China and raised in Florida, the American immigrant, 20, was disgraced and stripped of her Miss Michigan title. Zhu, vice president of the University of Michigan College Republicans, was condemned by a pageant official for writing “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate’’ social media posts.

She was essentially tried, convicted and sentenced to beauty-queen exile for displaying extreme political incorrectness and — gasp! — being an unabashed supporter of President Trump.

The only question remaining is this: How the devil did a dame capable of thinking for herself make it as far as she did in the land of ball gowns, enhanced boobs and empty heads?

And how do hypocritical officials overseeing contests that exist mainly to exploit women dare discriminate against one of their rising stars for failing to march, lockstep, to the political left?

“This is more than just some beauty pageant, this is about the prejudice[d] views against people with ‘different opinions,’ ” Zhu wrote Friday morning on Twitter, a day after being stripped of the tiara she’d been awarded just a day earlier.

Zhu was punished for social media posts she’d issued in 2017 and ’18.

Last year, she drew attention while a student at Central Florida University for criticizing a Muslim Student Association event in which women were invited to try on hijabs, head coverings worn in public by some Muslim women.

“So you’re telling me that it’s now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing?” Zhu tweeted at the time about the hijab challenge. “Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?”

The current University of Michigan senior is hardly alone in her distaste for garb that many people view as freighted with sexism. I wouldn’t have willingly tried one on, either.

“What’s ‘insensitive’ is that women in the middle east are getting STONED TO DEATH for refusing to obey their [husbands’] orders to wear hijabs,’’ she wrote in an (apparently dismissed) email to pageant officials. “A muslim woman tried to FORCIBLY put a hijab on my head without my permission . . . are the people in MWA implying that they advocate for the punishment of women who refuse to wear a hijab?’’

For pageant honchos, however, Zhu’s refusal to don the headgear and associated comments were unforgivably toxic.

In an interview Saturday, Zhu protested that these things do not make her Islamophobic, but she never got a chance to express this to officials. “They just immediately assumed that I was a racist,” she said. “They should have let me explain myself.’’

The other strike against Zhu came in an October 2017 tweet she posted: “Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming ­others.”

Now, many people, of various races, would likely agree with Zhu. But she was caught violating an unwritten pageant rule: Contestants may discuss horror at global warming, or express love for puppies and rainbows. But they must not, under any circumstances, disagree with leftist dogma on issues of potential debate.

Zhu told The Detroit News that she posted that tweet in response to social media claims that “all cops are bad cops, all cops were killing blacks,” but was unable to explain this to pageant honchos.

“It wasn’t anything about blaming blacks specifically for violence,” she said. “I mean, every community has problems within it. I just shined a light on that particular issue because of a subtweet of someone else.”

This was the first pageant entered by Zhu, who is now disqualified from advancing to the Miss World America contest in October in Las Vegas.

Zhu does not count herself as a political radical, but as a “right-leaning moderate,’’ as well as a Trump supporter.

And that seems to have been the kiss of death for her newbie career in the beauty realm, which holds pretensions of feminism while driving young women into the ground.

She’ll do far better without it.