Texas doctor fired for controversial flood victims post: ‘Get what they voted for. Bless their hearts’

A Houston pediatrician and a former city official were condemned for their vitriolic social media comments on the Texas flooding that killed at least 89 people over the weekend, causing the doctor to lose her job and Houston’s mayor saying he won’t reappoint the official.

Dr. Christina B. Propst of Blue Fish Pediatrics in Houston faced backlash for her since-deleted Facebook post.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” the original post read, according to Mediaite, which first reported on Propst’s comments.

“Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

Propst deleted her Facebook page, but Blue Fish Pediatrics still learned of her comments.

“This past weekend, we were made aware of a social media comment from one of our physicians. The individual is no longer employed by Blue Fish Pediatrics,” the practice posted to its Facebook page.

The devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, has drawn a massive search effort as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions, the Associated Press reported.

Propst was not the only person taken to task over social media posts on the flooding.

Sade Perkins, a former appointee to Houston’s Food Insecurity Board, posted videos to TikTok criticizing the camp that lost 27 young campers and staff in the flood.

“I know I’m going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls’ Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian. They don’t have a token Black person. It’s an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp,” Perkins said, according to the New York Post.

“If you ain’t white you ain’t right, you ain’t gettin’ in, you ain’t goin’. Period,” Perkins said.

She claimed the incident would not have the same media attention if the victims were minorities.

“If this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage that they’re getting, no one would give a f–k, and all these white people, the parents of these little girls would be saying things like ‘they need to be deported, they shouldn’t have been here in the first place’ and yada yada yada,” Perkins said.

She was appointed to the Food Insecurity Board in 2023 by then-Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.

Perkins’ appointment ended in January.

Mayor John Whitmire said he would not reappoint Perkins, calling her video “deeply inappropriate comments,” according to the Post.

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