A lady’s story about being betrayed by her husband—despite her family funding his education abroad and covering rent for years—sparked strong reactions online. While the focus should have remained on accountability and personal boundaries, one comment took a troubling turn: “The loyalty of a poor man must always be taken with a pinch of salt, always!”
This statement is deeply classist and unfair. It reduces loyalty to income level and implies that poverty equates to moral weakness. Betrayal is not a trait of being poor; it is a failure of character. Many people with little are deeply loyal, just as some with wealth are not. Turning one man’s wrongdoing into a judgment on an entire economic class distracts from the real issue and reinforces harmful stereotypes that help no one.
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