Kára McCullough won Sunday’s Miss USA pageant. But some who’d been cheering for her changed their minds when she outed herself as an independent thinker.

A 25-year-old black scientist who works at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, she won fans early on with those bare facts — plus the proud way she wore her natural curls rather than straightening her hair.

But then came the Q & A, where she said she doesn’t call herself a feminist or see health insurance as a basic human right.

“As a government employee, I’m granted health care and I see first-hand that for one to have health care, you need to have jobs,” she said, suggesting the answer is to “cultivate this environment [so] that we’re given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs.”

Then the Miss District of Columbia said, “I don’t want to call myself a feminist. Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.”

(Later, she clarified: “We’ve come a long way, and there is more work to be done. . . I do believe that we will become equal one day.”)

That shocked some viewers. Tweets included, “Dang, I wanted Miss D.C. to win but I’m sorry affordable health care is not a privilege.”

And: “A brown girl won #MissUSA but she thinks affordable healthcare is a privilege and feminism is man-hate so she’s cancelled #ByeGirl.”

Others told McCullough, who has a BS in chemistry with a concentration in radiochemistry, to check her privilege.

By disappointing the social-justice warriors, McCullough proved she’s not only beautiful and smart, but ready to speak her mind — in other words, a true queen.