A former city official and a pediatrician from Houston were criticized for their hateful remarks on social media regarding the flooding in Texas that killed at least 89 people over the weekend. The mayor of Houston said he would not re-appoint the official, and the pediatrician lost her job as a result.
Dr. Christina B. Propst of Houston’s Blue Fish Pediatrics received criticism for a Facebook post that has since been removed.
According to Mediaite, which first reported on Propst’s remarks, the original post said, “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters, and pets be safe and dry.”
The Kerr County MAGA decided to dismantle FEMA. Climate change is denied by them. I hope people get the results of their vote. Bless their hearts.
Blue Fish Pediatrics found out about Propst’s remarks even after she removed her Facebook page.
We learned about a social media remark made by one of our doctors this past weekend. Blue Fish Pediatrics announced on its Facebook page that the person was no longer employed by the practice.
As officials are questioned about their readiness and the timeliness of their early responses, the destruction along the Guadalupe River, west of San Antonio, has prompted a large search operation, according to the Associated Press.
Propst wasn’t the only individual criticized for posting about the flooding on social media.
Videos critical of the camp that lost 27 young campers and staff in the flood were uploaded to TikTok by Sade Perkins, a former member of Houston’s Food Insecurity Board.
I am aware that this will result in my cancellation, however Camp Mystic is a Christian camp exclusively for white girls. Not even a token Asian is present. They don’t have any Black tokens. According to the New York Post, Perkins said that the conservative Christian group was exclusively white.
You’re not going, you’re not getting in, and you’re not right if you’re not white. “Perkins said, period.”
She asserted that if the victims were minorities, the incident would not receive as much media coverage.
According to Perkins, if this group of Hispanic girls were out there, they wouldn’t be receiving the kind of coverage they are, nobody would care, and all these white people, together with the parents of these young girls, would be saying things like “they should be deported,” “they shouldn’t have been here in the first place,” and so on.
In 2023, Sylvester Turner, the mayor of Houston at the time, appointed her to the Food Insecurity Board.
January marked the conclusion of Perkins’ tenure.
According to the Post, Mayor John Whitmire declared he would not re-appoint Perkins, citing the video’s extremely offensive remarks.
