Pageant bosses yanked Miss Finland 2025 Sarah Dzafce’s title after an old photo of her pulling her eyes into a narrow shape next to a “dining with a Chinese” joke detonated into a racism scandal online.
A contest that claims to celebrate confidence instantly threw its own winner overboard so it could post a “zero tolerance” statement and prove its anti‑racist credentials to anonymous scolds.
Sarah Dzafce initially defended by saying she started rubbing her temples because of a headache, but then admitted to her behavior and apologized. The thing is, she should never have had to apologize.
Dzafce, who has Balkan roots and says she’s dealt with prejudice herself, said the shot was ripped out of context, but in today’s left-wing policies, intent doesn’t matter, and a single bad frame is enough to “cancel” a career. The same crowd that shrugs at real atrocities overseas now treats a 22-year-old model’s eye‑pulling as an international emergency, because they need low‑stakes racism panics to keep everyone scared of jokes, screenshots, or stepping one inch outside their "politically correct” script.
Meanwhile, if an Asian makes a joke about white people in general, it’s fine, and everyone laughs at it together, without throwing a fit and screaming, “RACIST!”