The New York Times has changed a headline after facing backlash for what critics said was its suggestion that white people represent America’s main culture. On Thursday, The Daily, a podcast the Times releases five days a week, featured a headline that read, “The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How We Missed It.”Several media voices immediately took note, demanding to know whom “we” was referring to, with some noting it certainly wasn’t them. “We = Y’all,” tweeted New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb, who is black. His remark was echoed by a slew of other reporters and writers who slammed the paper for the ambiguous pronoun, arguing it used whiteness as a sort of default identity rather than explicitly naming who “missed” the resurgence of neo-Nazism in the U.S.

Source: Huffington Post December 13, 2018 17:37 UTC