Social media influencer Nimisha Verma was trolled for her comments that she made about poverty in a video that was uploaded on March 30. It was deemed insensitive by the people on Twitter.
In the video, she spoke about privilege, resources, poverty and many other subjects. “Your mind is limited”, said the Instagram influencer referring to the people who decide that the ones with more resources are privileged. She labelled them as people with “limited mindsets”.
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A claim made by Verma in the video that drew a lot of attention and a surge of criticism was that people were made to believe in the concept of poverty and that the ones who lacked resources were underprivileged, referring that both were not true.
She added that she felt “weird” to hear people call the ones on the streets with insufficient clothes as “underprivileged”. “How do you get to decide that someone is underprivileged just because you have more clothes?” she elaborated. “You have been programmed to believe that sources are limited and the people who have less of it are underprivileged, and the people who have more of it are evil people”.
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The post did not go down well with the Twitter users, and it received a lot of counterblast.
Nimisha Verma, as mentioned in her profile, intends to create a “global change” and “transform lives”, has a following of over 92,000 followers on Instagram and has over 1,900 posts.