Kathy Zhu, the former Miss Michigan winner who was stripped of her title over tweets deemed “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate,” claimed that it is more difficult to come out as conservative than gay in the United States.

Zhu, who is the vice president of the College Republicans at the University of Michigan, made the claim while doubling down on her previous remarks at an event hosted by Michigan Trump Republicans, according to MLive.com.

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“After I came out as a conservative, which I think is very hard to do nowadays – it's harder than coming out as openly gay,” she said. “Ever since junior year, I’ve been ridiculed online, bullied online, on Twitter and Facebook. … People [told me] I was a white supremacist, even though I’m Asian. I don’t know why that’s even a thing.”

The comments from Zhu came just weeks after she was stripped of the 2019 Miss Michigan crown after the Miss World America organization had become aware of her previous social media posts.

Among other things, Zhu tweeted in 2017 that the African-American community needed to fix its own problems before criticizing others.