I never thought this could happen to me. It's been around you the whole time.
Cynicism is often the first step out of naivete, it seems.
When people who were born into poverty or the wrong race or the wrong gender or the wrong anything realize that they'll probably never be the smiling people with the money and the cars on TV, and will probably never be treated quite the same way, that cynicism grows. But she has glimpsed the truth late, and there lies the condemnation. It wasn't her problem until it became her problem, and now she only cares because she is the one suffering. The Cynic laughs at hypocrisy, at the facade of decency that those who have never really suffered use to deceive themselves. The Cynic sees the stories of fraud, of greed, of rampant ignorance and stupidity, where the perpetrators mask their true selves with big words about God, Patriotism, Progress, or Capitalism, and are promptly hailed as heroes.