Texas pediatrician fired for online post suggesting some flood victims deserved their fate

[dalton99a]

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-pediatrician-fired-for-online-post-suggesting-some-flood-victims-deserved-their-fate-37927468

Texas pediatrician fired for online post suggesting some flood victims deserved their fate
The Hill Country floods over the weekend have left 89 dead, including 27 Camp Mystic children and counselors.
By Michael Karlis on Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 11:52 am

A Texas pediatrician is out of a job after suggesting in a now-viral social media post that some Kerr County residents deserved the devastation from the weekend's flash floods because they voted for Trump, Mediaite reports.

As search and rescue operations got underway following the deadly July Fourth floods, Dr. Christina B. Propst of Houston fired off a Facebook post accusing Kerr County residents of denying climate change and voting to cut disaster-relief funding, according to the news site.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters, and pets be safe and dry,” Propst wrote in the now-removed post, which has been shared by multiple online sources. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

Propst’s post may have flown under the radar if it hadn't been for anonymously run right-wing account Libs of TikTok, which identified her as the poster and shared a screenshot. In a tweet, Libs of TikTok asked the doctor's employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, if it had any comment.

The Libs of TikTok post shaming the pediatrician has garnered nearly 3.5 million views as of press time.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The truth shall set you free.

Even if you are tone deaf.

[sop]

2. Had Propst blamed Biden, she'd still have a job.

Edited: "she"

[Nittersing]

3. She

[Kaleva]

4. A neighbor of mine says they deserved their fates

For putting their faith in a mythical being instead of cell phones and radios

[Silent Type]

5. Get it. Probably not smartest thing, but Peds often speak out in matters like this. They are strong on gun safety

especially in homes, vaccines, etc.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Shame

Doctor thought she lived in a free country.

[EdmondDantes_]

8. Free speech doesn't mean free of consequences

It was an appallingly stupid thing to post, especially considering her job.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Yes, it was.

But she has the right to do so without being ruined by people who don’t like what she wrote.

Shutting people up is NAZI.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. The government shutting people up is Nazi

A private employer not wanting to be associated with a nutjob who is posting something like this while they're still pulling bodies out of the water is not Nazi.

[Aristus]

11. Hear, hear.

They fire right-wingers for saying shit like this. We shouldn't get a free pass. We're supposed to be better than they are.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Is it more important to make a buck than to protect the Bill of Rights?

I don't like being around people who espouse NAZI ideas. But I don't want to be in a country where people can be shamed for saying something I don't agree with.

Nowadays goons like MAGA make life miserable for people who disagree with Trump: They are doing Trump's work. Thanks to ignorance, that is what passes for the US government today.

[EdmondDantes_]

15. Man is it going to be awkward when you realize DU bans people

Is that nazi behavior? Because you agreed to those terms when you made an account. Was it nazi behavior when Target and Walmart don't sell swastika flags?

Unrelated, but putting it in all caps doesn't actually make your point or do anything to convince me that I'm being a nazi.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Show where I called you a NAZI.

Go through my Journal and you'll see I capitalize NAZI every fucking time I use it.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. This situation has zero to do with the Bill of Rights n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

18. First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

20. The First Amendment applies to the government

not to private employers.

Who in the government fired the doctor?

[Kid Berwyn]

21. The government today respects the likes of "Libs of Tik Tok"

I prefer a government that protects the rights of all Americans.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

22. You didn't answer the question

How was the doctor's First Amendment rights violated by the government?

The government allowing Libs of TikTok to exist isn't even comparable...what would be comparable would be if the employer of whomever runs Libs of TikTok decided they didn't like what they're doing and fired them. And they would be within their rights to do so.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Write whatever strawman you want. That's not what I wrote.

I wrote she has the right to say what she wants or to write what she wants.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

24. Yep

And her employer has the right to fire her for it.

[EdmondDantes_]

14. She absolutely has the right. The government isn't throwing her in jail

But just like DU has rules about supporting Democrats, and will ban people who don't, there's nothing in the first amendment about not having consequences. There's a reason it starts Congress shall make no law, not nobody will ever suffer even the slightest consequence when it comes to free speech.

[Javaman]

7. we all hate the orange asshole, but this is fucking fringe nut job fucking crazy hate. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

13. She Has The Right To Say It

That doesn't mean it was smart to make that post.

[Greg_In_SF]

17. This is absolutely not

a first amendment issue. Not even close.