Caitlyn had sympathy for the undercity in season 1 because she could never fully grasp the loss and suffering the people had gone through. When she loses her mom and feels a fraction of that suffering, she no longer shows sympathy, nor does she show empathy. Instead, she runs from her grief and drowns that old affection in hatred. I find it insane how people use the excuse that ‘she’s grieving’ to justify her actions towards the undercity. When she aims her gun towards Isha, Cait doesn’t recognise her as a child, she only sees jinx. And isn’t that it? There are hundreds of jinxes in the undercity: children growing up grief-stricken and hungry, as a result of them living in poverty. As a result of the rights and privileges they didn’t have, the rights and privileges they were denied. Caitlyn is allowed to grieve her mother, she doesn’t have to think about her next meal, where she’ll stay. But a dead parent in the undercity? Their children aren’t allowed the big funeral, the golden casket, the time to process. The undercity is built on grief. Its children have been grieving. And what does Caitlyn do? What does topside decide to do? They gas them.
“(Caitlyn) literally represents how easily privileged people will fall into fascism when they go through just an ounce of suffering the oppressed class endure” (@/O1laoghaire on Twitter)
