I would guess that this journalist was trained with the worldview that the “downtrodden” are in the position they are in due to society’s iniquities instead of personal character failings,
so she went in to document their plight and found out that, yes, indeed, people in certain circumstances are there because of their own personal individual character flaws.
Blame this attack on the liberal worldview.
Actually, I blame in on the immigrants who raped her. I blame the liberal worldview for obscuring this woman’s perception, or lack of it, of danger. What a terrible way to have to learn what the world is like.